Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... idea or image or truth because it is beautiful . Of the naïveté of the old ballad , the careless rapture of Chaucer when the lark sings and the meadows grow sweet with the breath of May , the free and joyous play of imagination in ...
... idea or image or truth because it is beautiful . Of the naïveté of the old ballad , the careless rapture of Chaucer when the lark sings and the meadows grow sweet with the breath of May , the free and joyous play of imagination in ...
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... ideas , but also in its power to clear the vision , to broaden the range of human interests , and to liberate the imagination . Poe's work attests again the presence of an element in the life of man and in the work of his hand which ...
... ideas , but also in its power to clear the vision , to broaden the range of human interests , and to liberate the imagination . Poe's work attests again the presence of an element in the life of man and in the work of his hand which ...
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... ideas by which it was animated ; and we cannot esti- mate it or even understand it except in so far as we are able to grasp these underlying principles . What the ideas were which dominated these vanished civilizations it is for us to ...
... ideas by which it was animated ; and we cannot esti- mate it or even understand it except in so far as we are able to grasp these underlying principles . What the ideas were which dominated these vanished civilizations it is for us to ...
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... idea of the antiquity , extent and magnitude of our Institution . And it is equally true that many even of our most intelligent and active young Brethren , not having their attention drawn to the subject , overlook its history and the ...
... idea of the antiquity , extent and magnitude of our Institution . And it is equally true that many even of our most intelligent and active young Brethren , not having their attention drawn to the subject , overlook its history and the ...
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... idea of what is hoped for the future of the world when art is laid within her tomb . Yet I think I can in a measure judge from the present tendency of matters what is likely to happen to those things which we handicraftsmen have to deal ...
... idea of what is hoped for the future of the world when art is laid within her tomb . Yet I think I can in a measure judge from the present tendency of matters what is likely to happen to those things which we handicraftsmen have to deal ...
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