Modern Eloquence, Volume 9J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Thomas Brackett Reed. agreed . But these structural laws are never obvious in the great works of art ; they are obeyed , not because they have been arbitrarily imposed by an authority from with- out , but because they are at one with the ...
Thomas Brackett Reed. agreed . But these structural laws are never obvious in the great works of art ; they are obeyed , not because they have been arbitrarily imposed by an authority from with- out , but because they are at one with the ...
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... never borne its like before . There was nothing in the America of the third decade of the century which seemed to predict " The City in the Sea , " " Israfel , " and the lines " To Helen . " It is true , work of genuine literary quality ...
... never borne its like before . There was nothing in the America of the third decade of the century which seemed to predict " The City in the Sea , " " Israfel , " and the lines " To Helen . " It is true , work of genuine literary quality ...
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... never so wonderful as in those per- fect lines , those exquisite images and similes , those fragrant sentences akin with the flowers in their freshness , and in their purity with waters which carry the stars in their depths , which ...
... never so wonderful as in those per- fect lines , those exquisite images and similes , those fragrant sentences akin with the flowers in their freshness , and in their purity with waters which carry the stars in their depths , which ...
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... never was on sea or land " was a spiritual event of high sig- nificance . That men do not live by bread alone is the common message of religion and of art . That message was delivered by Poe with marvelous distinctness of speech . That ...
... never was on sea or land " was a spiritual event of high sig- nificance . That men do not live by bread alone is the common message of religion and of art . That message was delivered by Poe with marvelous distinctness of speech . That ...
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... never attempted to cross . The material with which he con- stantly dealt becomes significant alike of the extraordinary susceptibility of his genius , and of the lack of the forms of life about him to satisfy and inspire him . He ...
... never attempted to cross . The material with which he con- stantly dealt becomes significant alike of the extraordinary susceptibility of his genius , and of the lack of the forms of life about him to satisfy and inspire him . He ...
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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...