Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... expression in the literature of the youth of races , and is the special and prime quality of literature at that stage of development . As the man is born first in the boy's temper and spirit and ideals , and born again in the strug ...
... expression in the literature of the youth of races , and is the special and prime quality of literature at that stage of development . As the man is born first in the boy's temper and spirit and ideals , and born again in the strug ...
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... expression , and his work will be English to the core . Literature may be said to approach perfection in the degree in which it reveals the life behind it , and at the same time conceals all trace of intention , contrivance , or method ...
... expression , and his work will be English to the core . Literature may be said to approach perfection in the degree in which it reveals the life behind it , and at the same time conceals all trace of intention , contrivance , or method ...
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... expression of the English race in the New World there is a clear , definite purpose , an ulterior aim , a subordination of the art to the religious or political in- tention , which stamp the writing of the time as essentially secondary ...
... expression of the English race in the New World there is a clear , definite purpose , an ulterior aim , a subordination of the art to the religious or political in- tention , which stamp the writing of the time as essentially secondary ...
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... expression of American life , to show how it was directed and shaped by conditions in the New World ; but with the publication of Wieland the inexpli- cable appears , the creative spirit begins to reveal itself . Charles Brockden Brown ...
... expression of American life , to show how it was directed and shaped by conditions in the New World ; but with the publication of Wieland the inexpli- cable appears , the creative spirit begins to reveal itself . Charles Brockden Brown ...
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... expression chiefly in the molding of national institutions and the shaping of national affairs ; and it may be said without exaggeration that rarely in the history of the world has public life been enriched by so many men of commanding ...
... expression chiefly in the molding of national institutions and the shaping of national affairs ; and it may be said without exaggeration that rarely in the history of the world has public life been enriched by so many men of commanding ...
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