Modern Eloquence, Volume 2Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1901 |
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Page 432
... seems to many minds as dry and unromantic as it was hard and narrow . No mist of distance softens the harsh outlines , no mirage of tradition lifts events and characters into picturesque beauty . There seems a poverty of sentiment . The ...
... seems to many minds as dry and unromantic as it was hard and narrow . No mist of distance softens the harsh outlines , no mirage of tradition lifts events and characters into picturesque beauty . There seems a poverty of sentiment . The ...
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... seems to slowly come . A horn puts a star above the horizon . The night , in the purple hum of the bass , wanders away like some enormous bee across wide fields of dead clover . The light grows whiter as the violins in- crease . Colors ...
... seems to slowly come . A horn puts a star above the horizon . The night , in the purple hum of the bass , wanders away like some enormous bee across wide fields of dead clover . The light grows whiter as the violins in- crease . Colors ...
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... seems to me a very good sign . I had an opportunity , by a strange accident , of becoming very intimate with the outward appearance of New England during my youth by going about when a little boy with my father when he went on exchanges ...
... seems to me a very good sign . I had an opportunity , by a strange accident , of becoming very intimate with the outward appearance of New England during my youth by going about when a little boy with my father when he went on exchanges ...
Contents
VOLUME II | 421 |
ELIOT CHARLES WILLIAM | 427 |
EMERSON RALPH WALDO | 437 |
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