Roosevelt: A Study in AmbivalenceJackson Press, 1919 - 159 pages |
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... poetic license ? No , that is not the reason . Is it because I am excommunicated from the ranks of the Authors ' League ? In fact , if newspaper accounts may be trusted , its devotees are pledged never to utter the name of Viereck ...
... poetic license ? No , that is not the reason . Is it because I am excommunicated from the ranks of the Authors ' League ? In fact , if newspaper accounts may be trusted , its devotees are pledged never to utter the name of Viereck ...
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... poet stick to his lyre ? Who shall say that H. G. Wells , Henri Barbusse , and Ro- main Rolland have no share in shaping the destiny of mankind ? The typewriter is mightier than the ma- chine gun . Logic , more potent than Busy Berthas ...
... poet stick to his lyre ? Who shall say that H. G. Wells , Henri Barbusse , and Ro- main Rolland have no share in shaping the destiny of mankind ? The typewriter is mightier than the ma- chine gun . Logic , more potent than Busy Berthas ...
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... poet , Kurt Eisner , was the first dictator of the Bavarian Republic . A great poet fanned Italy's martial fervor . D'Annunzio did his utmost to embroil his country in war . I , in my humble way , did my utmost to keep my country at ...
... poet , Kurt Eisner , was the first dictator of the Bavarian Republic . A great poet fanned Italy's martial fervor . D'Annunzio did his utmost to embroil his country in war . I , in my humble way , did my utmost to keep my country at ...
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... Poet at the University of Berlin . In the " Confessions of a Barbarian , " I portray myself as a young American barbarian who for the first time finds himself face to face with Kultur . The book is a panegyric on Ger- many ...
... Poet at the University of Berlin . In the " Confessions of a Barbarian , " I portray myself as a young American barbarian who for the first time finds himself face to face with Kultur . The book is a panegyric on Ger- many ...
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... poets , all " dupes and tools of foreign influence , " are the mummers in this puppet show . The ebbs and tides of American politics reflect merely different phases of one gigantic purpose . Now silent , now vociferous , now covert ...
... poets , all " dupes and tools of foreign influence , " are the mummers in this puppet show . The ebbs and tides of American politics reflect merely different phases of one gigantic purpose . Now silent , now vociferous , now covert ...
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287 Fourth Avenue admiration American citizen Americans of German attacks attitude ATTORNEY Authors Barbarian Belgium believe Berlin Blank blood Britain British Confessions Conrad Aiken course Dear Dernburg Edgar Allan Poe EDITOR emotional England English fact fair-weather feel Flame foes Freud friends friendship for Germany genius George Bernard Shaw George Sylvester Viereck German Americans German Propaganda Gertrude Atherton hands hate heart Henri Barbusse Hugo Muensterberg Kaiser Labor Relief leader League of America letter literary Louis Mirror ment mind nation never newspaper Nineveh OFFICE OF GEORGE Oyster Bay PADRAIC PEARSE patriotic Perhaps poems poet poetic Poetry Society political President Pro-Germanism professed friendship Psychoanalysis remarkable replied Roose Sagamore Hill seemed Shaw Songs of Armageddon STUDY IN AMBIVALENCE sword Theodore Roosevelt things tion to-day tribute unconscious United Vampire velt verse Vigilantes violation Whitman Wilson write written York City York Evening Mail
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Page 122 - We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years ; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
Page 150 - ... spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Page 150 - And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Page 5 - Always on the right — Vanquished, this shall be our pride In the world's despite. Let the oily Pharisees Purse their lips and rant, Calm we face the Destinies: Better "can't
Page 112 - If the Authors' League or the Poetry Society or any other organization expels a member because of his political opinions, it thereby constitutes itself a political body and violates whatever literary charter it may have. Literature, art and science are free of frontiers; and those who exploit them politically are traitors to the greatest republic in the world : the Republic of Art and Science.
Page 47 - Bravely drain, then fling away, Break the cup of sorrow! Courage! He who lost the day May have won the morrow.
Page 122 - Seton. leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won. In the long fight for righteousness the watchword for all of us, is spend and be spent.