Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... nature and life we may hope to de- velop on the scale of the Greeks or the English . A great literature must be waited for , and while we are waiting it is wise to be hopeful of the future ; for expectation is often a kind of prophecy ...
... nature and life we may hope to de- velop on the scale of the Greeks or the English . A great literature must be waited for , and while we are waiting it is wise to be hopeful of the future ; for expectation is often a kind of prophecy ...
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... nature and with life ; with the order about it , and the inward and outward happenings of its life . Work and play , the conscious putting forth of en- ergy and the unconscious responsiveness to all manner of impressions , must be kept ...
... nature and with life ; with the order about it , and the inward and outward happenings of its life . Work and play , the conscious putting forth of en- ergy and the unconscious responsiveness to all manner of impressions , must be kept ...
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... Nature , " so full of his penetrating insight into the spiritual symbolism of nature phenomena and processes ; Longfellow had returned from that first year of foreign residence which had enriched his fancy , and through the sympathetic ...
... Nature , " so full of his penetrating insight into the spiritual symbolism of nature phenomena and processes ; Longfellow had returned from that first year of foreign residence which had enriched his fancy , and through the sympathetic ...
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... nature but intense convictions , who was speaking to hos- tile audiences and braving the perils of mob violence in his advocacy of the anti - slavery cause . These names suggest the purity and aspiration , the high idealism and the ...
... nature but intense convictions , who was speaking to hos- tile audiences and braving the perils of mob violence in his advocacy of the anti - slavery cause . These names suggest the purity and aspiration , the high idealism and the ...
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... natural magic , this divine ease in doing the most difficult things , is the exclusive property of the man of genius , and is his only in his most fortunate hours . No man can command this consummate bloom on human speech ; it lies on ...
... natural magic , this divine ease in doing the most difficult things , is the exclusive property of the man of genius , and is his only in his most fortunate hours . No man can command this consummate bloom on human speech ; it lies on ...
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