Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 812
... tion that man has a right to live as well as to work ; that the value of work depends largely upon spontaneity ; and that the springs which gush from the soil have the greatest power of assuaging the thirst of the soul . This element of ...
... tion that man has a right to live as well as to work ; that the value of work depends largely upon spontaneity ; and that the springs which gush from the soil have the greatest power of assuaging the thirst of the soul . This element of ...
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... tion in which he lived , in his discernment of the value of beauty to men struggling for their lives in a world full of ugliness because full of all manner of imperfection ; he is still in advance of any general development of the ...
... tion in which he lived , in his discernment of the value of beauty to men struggling for their lives in a world full of ugliness because full of all manner of imperfection ; he is still in advance of any general development of the ...
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... tion of the country had not been adequate to the task of penetrating and illuminating its immense practical ener- gies ; or as if its activities were too vast and varied to admit of imaginative coördination at this early day in our ...
... tion of the country had not been adequate to the task of penetrating and illuminating its immense practical ener- gies ; or as if its activities were too vast and varied to admit of imaginative coördination at this early day in our ...
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... tion of form is to exclude from the contest all save the fleetest and the strongest . It is to do more , for the service of the artist really begins when his work is com- pletely finished , and separated from his own personality : it is ...
... tion of form is to exclude from the contest all save the fleetest and the strongest . It is to do more , for the service of the artist really begins when his work is com- pletely finished , and separated from his own personality : it is ...
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... tion of the imagination of the young country , so recently a province of the Old World . His criticism was almost entirely free from that narrow localism which values a writer because he belongs to a section , and not because his work ...
... tion of the imagination of the young country , so recently a province of the Old World . His criticism was almost entirely free from that narrow localism which values a writer because he belongs to a section , and not because his work ...
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