Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 819
... truth because it is beautiful . Of the naïveté of the old ballad , the careless rapture of Chaucer when the lark sings and the meadows grow sweet with the breath of May , the free and joyous play of imagination in Shakespeare , there is ...
... truth because it is beautiful . Of the naïveté of the old ballad , the careless rapture of Chaucer when the lark sings and the meadows grow sweet with the breath of May , the free and joyous play of imagination in Shakespeare , there is ...
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... truth never finally revealed until it is beautiful , Poe's significance is not obscured nor his work dimmed by the faults and misfortunes of his life . The obvious lessons of that pathetic career have been well learned ; it is time to ...
... truth never finally revealed until it is beautiful , Poe's significance is not obscured nor his work dimmed by the faults and misfortunes of his life . The obvious lessons of that pathetic career have been well learned ; it is time to ...
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... truth affirm that I would not have come forward to displace so estimable a gentle- man and so accomplished a scholar as Colonel Mure . But Colonel Mure felt last year that it was not for him , and I now feel that it is not for me , to ...
... truth affirm that I would not have come forward to displace so estimable a gentle- man and so accomplished a scholar as Colonel Mure . But Colonel Mure felt last year that it was not for him , and I now feel that it is not for me , to ...
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... truth , minds daily nourished with the best litera- ture of Greece and Rome necessarily grew too strong to be trammeled by the cobwebs of the scholastic divinity ; and the influence of such minds was now rapidly felt by the whole ...
... truth , minds daily nourished with the best litera- ture of Greece and Rome necessarily grew too strong to be trammeled by the cobwebs of the scholastic divinity ; and the influence of such minds was now rapidly felt by the whole ...
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... truth from what has appeared either in " The Times " newspaper or in the " Pall Mall Gazette , " which has confirmed the statements . I hold the proofs in my own hand . And from whom do they come ? From official documents , from the ...
... truth from what has appeared either in " The Times " newspaper or in the " Pall Mall Gazette , " which has confirmed the statements . I hold the proofs in my own hand . And from whom do they come ? From official documents , from the ...
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