Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... literature . In suggestiveness , power to kindle emotion , and abiding human interest literary subjects have much to do with the making of literature . The contents of these volumes are drawn largely , though not exclusively , from ...
... literature . In suggestiveness , power to kindle emotion , and abiding human interest literary subjects have much to do with the making of literature . The contents of these volumes are drawn largely , though not exclusively , from ...
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... literature . But I leave this train of thought , which has perhaps al- ready taken me too far , in order to point out a more fun- damental error , as I think it , which arises from regarding literature solely from this high æsthetic ...
... literature . But I leave this train of thought , which has perhaps al- ready taken me too far , in order to point out a more fun- damental error , as I think it , which arises from regarding literature solely from this high æsthetic ...
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... literature , that I have degraded it from its rightful place , by discussing only certain ways in which it may minister to the enter- tainment of an idle hour , leaving wholly out of sight its contributions to what Mr. Harrison calls ...
... literature , that I have degraded it from its rightful place , by discussing only certain ways in which it may minister to the enter- tainment of an idle hour , leaving wholly out of sight its contributions to what Mr. Harrison calls ...
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