Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... 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 ...
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... 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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Page 1038 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 1112 - With the help of your good hands. Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant ; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer ; Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
Page 1138 - The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate abreast.
Page 1148 - Oh say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 1138 - South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are".
Page 922 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 1079 - That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Page 1064 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 1138 - ... of yours, interlacing our industrial, commercial, civil, and religious life with yours in a way that shall make the interests of both races one. In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Page 1137 - Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions. And in this con nection it is well to bear in mind that whatever other sins the South may be called to bear, when it comes to business, pure and simple, it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world, and in nothing is this Exposition more eloquent than in emphasizing this chance.