Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 821
... poets , romancers , and essayists were , later , to be added the name of Sidney Lanier , whose affluent na- ture needed another decade for its complete unfolding and coördination ; and of Walt Whitman , who was so rich in the elemental ...
... poets , romancers , and essayists were , later , to be added the name of Sidney Lanier , whose affluent na- ture needed another decade for its complete unfolding and coördination ; and of Walt Whitman , who was so rich in the elemental ...
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... poets of the century . This is only saying that if you have one quality in a very high stage of development , you are likely to be defective in other qualities equally important . A national literature must have many notes , and Poe ...
... poets of the century . This is only saying that if you have one quality in a very high stage of development , you are likely to be defective in other qualities equally important . A national literature must have many notes , and Poe ...
Page 831
... poet never attempted to cross . The material with which he con- stantly dealt becomes significant alike of the extraordinary susceptibility of his genius , and of the lack of the forms of life about him to satisfy and inspire him . He ...
... poet never attempted to cross . The material with which he con- stantly dealt becomes significant alike of the extraordinary susceptibility of his genius , and of the lack of the forms of life about him to satisfy and inspire him . He ...
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... poets and scholars and thinkers , but it must reserve for them its highest rewards . Without the presence of the superior man , the “ para- dise of the average man , " as this country has been called , would become a purgatory to all ...
... poets and scholars and thinkers , but it must reserve for them its highest rewards . Without the presence of the superior man , the “ para- dise of the average man , " as this country has been called , would become a purgatory to all ...
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... poet , so long as he can offer so indisputable a token as a good poem of his relation to what is highest in Being . " To those who understand that character is never perfect until it is harmonious , and truth never finally revealed ...
... poet , so long as he can offer so indisputable a token as a good poem of his relation to what is highest in Being . " To those who understand that character is never perfect until it is harmonious , and truth never finally revealed ...
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