Modern Eloquence, Volume 9J.D. Morris, 1900 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 53
Page 817
... faith that life is greater than its works , and a man more important than his toil . A race , like an individual , must get this con- sciousness of possession before the work of the day be- POE'S PLACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 817.
... faith that life is greater than its works , and a man more important than his toil . A race , like an individual , must get this con- sciousness of possession before the work of the day be- POE'S PLACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 817.
Page 826
... faith and his gift , diminishes the sig- nificance and value of his work no more than a kindred infidelity nullifies the word of prophets of another order . In the mysterious spiritual economy of the universe there are coördinations of ...
... faith and his gift , diminishes the sig- nificance and value of his work no more than a kindred infidelity nullifies the word of prophets of another order . In the mysterious spiritual economy of the universe there are coördinations of ...
Page 827
... faith is not without its perils ; but in a new and working world , whose idealism had run mainly along lines of action , it was essential and it was of high importance . This single - mindedness of Poe in the pursuit of perfection in ...
... faith is not without its perils ; but in a new and working world , whose idealism had run mainly along lines of action , it was essential and it was of high importance . This single - mindedness of Poe in the pursuit of perfection in ...
Page 838
... faith to which our country owes so much must not prevent us from paying the tribute which , on this occasion , and in this place , justice and gratitude demand , to the founder of the University of Glasgow , the greatest of the ...
... faith to which our country owes so much must not prevent us from paying the tribute which , on this occasion , and in this place , justice and gratitude demand , to the founder of the University of Glasgow , the greatest of the ...
Page 851
... faith in the mighty work before him ? Thus com- manded , thus assured , Mr. Lincoln journeyed to the capi- tal , where he took the oath of office and registered in heaven an oath to save the Union ; and the Lord , our God , " was with ...
... faith in the mighty work before him ? Thus com- manded , thus assured , Mr. Lincoln journeyed to the capi- tal , where he took the oath of office and registered in heaven an oath to save the Union ; and the Lord , our God , " was with ...
Contents
807 | |
836 | |
845 | |
854 | |
861 | |
872 | |
880 | |
887 | |
1007 | |
1017 | |
1029 | |
1052 | |
1068 | |
1076 | |
1098 | |
1104 | |
891 | |
911 | |
932 | |
940 | |
955 | |
964 | |
971 | |
980 | |
995 | |
1114 | |
1120 | |
1130 | |
1136 | |
1199 | |
1219 | |
1226 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Ameri American army artist battle beauty born called CARL SCHURZ century Chief Justice citizens civilization Commons Preservation Societies Constitution Court culture divine EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN element England English eyes fact faith feel flag Francis Scott Key freedom French genius HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE hand heart heaven honor hope human idea ideal imagination important intellectual knowledge land learned LEW WALLACE liberty light literature live look Marshall memory ment mind moral nation nature never novel pass patriotism peace perfection perhaps person Perugia philosophical Photogravure Poe's poet political Potiphar President race Raphael religion religious Republic Robert Charles Winthrop seems Shakespeare society soldiers soul speak spirit stand Star-Spangled Banner Taney things thought tion to-day touch true truth ture University Washington whole WILLIAM MCKINLEY words
Popular passages
Page 1028 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 1099 - Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air : And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on ; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Page 1122 - The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed ; And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate abreast.
Page 1132 - Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 985 - I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life...
Page 1122 - South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race, " Cast down your bucket where you are.
Page 1198 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 1054 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 1122 - In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Page 1098 - No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change ! Thy pyramids built up with newer might To me are nothing novel, nothing strange ; They are but dressings of a former sight. Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire What thou dost foist upon us that is old, And rather make them born to our desire Than think that we before have heard them told. Thy registers and thee I both defy, Not...