Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... is conditioned , for its full , free , and highest expression , upon character , the large majority of students of literature are HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE Photogravure after a photograph from life ROCKWOOD 816 HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE.
... is conditioned , for its full , free , and highest expression , upon character , the large majority of students of literature are HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE Photogravure after a photograph from life ROCKWOOD 816 HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE.
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... highest work of all kinds obedience is spontaneous and apparently uncon- scious ; for it is of the very essence of art that all traces of the workman should be effaced . A great poem has the volume , the flow , the deep and silent ...
... highest work of all kinds obedience is spontaneous and apparently uncon- scious ; for it is of the very essence of art that all traces of the workman should be effaced . A great poem has the volume , the flow , the deep and silent ...
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... highest hon- ors of American authorship , was hidden in that fortunate obscurity in which his delicate and sensitive genius found perhaps the best conditions for its ripening . The " Twice- Told Tales " did not appear until 1837. Lowell ...
... highest hon- ors of American authorship , was hidden in that fortunate obscurity in which his delicate and sensitive genius found perhaps the best conditions for its ripening . The " Twice- Told Tales " did not appear until 1837. Lowell ...
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... highest literary tribunal . The men of Lowell's generation in New England could not have estimated adequately the quality of Poe's genius nor the value of his work . Their conception of their art was high and their practice of it ...
... highest literary tribunal . The men of Lowell's generation in New England could not have estimated adequately the quality of Poe's genius nor the value of his work . Their conception of their art was high and their practice of it ...
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... highest and finest individualities will bring us , perhaps , as near a per- fect social order as we can hope to attain . Poe was such a personality ; a man whose gifts were of the most indi- vidual kind , whose tastes were fastidious ...
... highest and finest individualities will bring us , perhaps , as near a per- fect social order as we can hope to attain . Poe was such a personality ; a man whose gifts were of the most indi- vidual kind , whose tastes were fastidious ...
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