Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... imagination of a race is shaped , colored , and formed largely in the earliest con- tacts of that race with nature and with life ; with the order about it , and the inward and outward happenings of its life . Work and play , the ...
... imagination of a race is shaped , colored , and formed largely in the earliest con- tacts of that race with nature and with life ; with the order about it , and the inward and outward happenings of its life . Work and play , the ...
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... imagination in Shakespeare , there is no trace in early writing on this con- tinent . That writing was serious and weighty , often touching the heights of eloquence in noble argument for the inviolability of those rights which are the ...
... imagination in Shakespeare , there is no trace in early writing on this con- tinent . That writing was serious and weighty , often touching the heights of eloquence in noble argument for the inviolability of those rights which are the ...
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... imagination of the country by the ringing protest against the destruction of the Constitution in " Old Ironsides , " and in the same decade revealed his true lyric gift in " The Last Leaf . " Whittier was a young Quaker , of gentle ...
... imagination of the country by the ringing protest against the destruction of the Constitution in " Old Ironsides , " and in the same decade revealed his true lyric gift in " The Last Leaf . " Whittier was a young Quaker , of gentle ...
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... imagination . For the first time in the New World it became easy and natural for men to sing . Hitherto the imagination had been in- voked to give wings and fire to high argument for the rights of men ; now the imagination began to ...
... imagination . For the first time in the New World it became easy and natural for men to sing . Hitherto the imagination had been in- voked to give wings and fire to high argument for the rights of men ; now the imagination began to ...
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... imagination ever grows up in isolation ; every sensitive spirit shares in the impulses of its time , and receives its education for its own work at the hands of older teachers . When all is said , however , Poe remains a man of ...
... imagination ever grows up in isolation ; every sensitive spirit shares in the impulses of its time , and receives its education for its own work at the hands of older teachers . When all is said , however , Poe remains a man of ...
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