The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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Page xxvi
... true , but it is true that they are better known . We find , on examining our selections , that we have , though not purposively , done something to redress the balance . The reader will find the conservative position , now being ...
... true , but it is true that they are better known . We find , on examining our selections , that we have , though not purposively , done something to redress the balance . The reader will find the conservative position , now being ...
Page 543
... true , for example , of Robert Frost . It is true to a lesser degree of Emily Dickinson . It would have been true of T. S. Eliot had we been able to persuade ourselves that he was , beyond the circumstance of his birth , an American ...
... true , for example , of Robert Frost . It is true to a lesser degree of Emily Dickinson . It would have been true of T. S. Eliot had we been able to persuade ourselves that he was , beyond the circumstance of his birth , an American ...
Page 856
... true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . Ibid . , " History " Every revolution was once a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform ...
... true poem is the poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship- builder . Ibid . , " History " Every revolution was once a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man , it is the key to that era . Every reform ...
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