Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 811
... young nation , but an old people ; and our books , as distinguished from English books , are the products of a mature people in a new world . The world in which books are written has much to do with their quality , their themes , and ...
... young nation , but an old people ; and our books , as distinguished from English books , are the products of a mature people in a new world . The world in which books are written has much to do with their quality , their themes , and ...
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... young world sinks into its heart and becomes part of its deepest consciousness ; for it is out of these memories and dreams that the visions of art issue . The artist is always a child in freshness of feeling ; in unworldly delight in ...
... young world sinks into its heart and becomes part of its deepest consciousness ; for it is out of these memories and dreams that the visions of art issue . The artist is always a child in freshness of feeling ; in unworldly delight in ...
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... young Quaker , of gentle 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 ...
... young Quaker , of gentle 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 ...
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... 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 belongs to literature . He ...
... 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 belongs to literature . He ...
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... Young , Reid and Stewart ; Campbell , whose coffin was lately borne to a grave in that renowned transept which con- tains the dust of Chaucer , of Spenser , and of Dryden ; Black , whose discoveries form an era in the history of ...
... Young , Reid and Stewart ; Campbell , whose coffin was lately borne to a grave in that renowned transept which con- tains the dust of Chaucer , of Spenser , and of Dryden ; Black , whose discoveries form an era in the history of ...
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