Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 823
... stand for and are bound up in the fortunes of the New World , and its new order of political and social life . Poe alone , among men of his eminence , could not have been . foreseen . One This fact suggests his limitations , but it also ...
... stand for and are bound up in the fortunes of the New World , and its new order of political and social life . Poe alone , among men of his eminence , could not have been . foreseen . One This fact suggests his limitations , but it also ...
Page 824
... the dæmonic element in art , Poe stands alone in our literature , unrelated to his environment and detached from his time ; the most dis- tinctive and individual writer who has yet appeared in this 824 HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIÉ.
... the dæmonic element in art , Poe stands alone in our literature , unrelated to his environment and detached from his time ; the most dis- tinctive and individual writer who has yet appeared in this 824 HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIÉ.
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... stands solitary among men of his class in fastening , as by instinct , upon the sombre and tragical aspects of experience . In the high light which rests upon the New World , the mysterious gloom which enshrouds " The Fall of the House ...
... stands solitary among men of his class in fastening , as by instinct , upon the sombre and tragical aspects of experience . In the high light which rests upon the New World , the mysterious gloom which enshrouds " The Fall of the House ...
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... stand , he faltered and remained mute . Doubtless the multitude of thoughts which rushed into his mind was such as even he could not easily arrange or express . In truth there are few spectacles more striking or affecting than that ...
... stand , he faltered and remained mute . Doubtless the multitude of thoughts which rushed into his mind was such as even he could not easily arrange or express . In truth there are few spectacles more striking or affecting than that ...
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... standing before a judgment - seat and laying his neck on a block , it was when the mangled remains of the Duke of Hamilton had just been laid in the tomb of his house , it was when the head of the Marquess of Mon- trose had just been ...
... standing before a judgment - seat and laying his neck on a block , it was when the mangled remains of the Duke of Hamilton had just been laid in the tomb of his house , it was when the head of the Marquess of Mon- trose had just been ...
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