Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 817
... becomes part of its deepest consciousness ; for it is out of these memories and dreams that the visions of art issue . The artist is always a child in freshness of feeling ; in unworldly delight in the things which do not add to one's ...
... becomes part of its deepest consciousness ; for it is out of these memories and dreams that the visions of art issue . The artist is always a child in freshness of feeling ; in unworldly delight in the things which do not add to one's ...
Page 818
... becomes art only when it is transformed into play . Our race has had its youth , its dreams and visions ; but that youth was lived on another continent ; so far as the record of experience in our literature is concerned , we have always ...
... becomes art only when it is transformed into play . Our race has had its youth , its dreams and visions ; but that youth was lived on another continent ; so far as the record of experience in our literature is concerned , we have always ...
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... become an adept in the skill of his craft ; but the final felicity of touch , the ultimate grace of effortless power , elude and baffle him . Shakespeare is never so wonderful as in those per- fect lines , those exquisite images and ...
... become an adept in the skill of his craft ; but the final felicity of touch , the ultimate grace of effortless power , elude and baffle him . Shakespeare is never so wonderful as in those per- fect lines , those exquisite images and ...
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... become once more a reality amid the dissonances of a struggling and imperfect society . It is the function of the prophet to declare the inexorable will of righteousness amid a moral disorder which makes that will , at times , almost ...
... become once more a reality amid the dissonances of a struggling and imperfect society . It is the function of the prophet to declare the inexorable will of righteousness amid a moral disorder which makes that will , at times , almost ...
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... 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 expresses the dissonance which has so far existed between the essen- tially ...
... 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 expresses the dissonance which has so far existed between the essen- tially ...
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