Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 864
... French literature what it is tend also to keep the French race from expansion ; just as the qualities which make English literature what it is have sent the English - speaking stock forth to fill up the waste places of the earth , and ...
... French literature what it is tend also to keep the French race from expansion ; just as the qualities which make English literature what it is have sent the English - speaking stock forth to fill up the waste places of the earth , and ...
Page 868
... French , because we ourselves speak English , so the American division of that literature is closer to us than the British . It helps us to understand one another , and it explains us to ourselves . If we ac- cept the statement that ...
... French , because we ourselves speak English , so the American division of that literature is closer to us than the British . It helps us to understand one another , and it explains us to ourselves . If we ac- cept the statement that ...
Page 870
... French critic suavely answered , " He is important to us . " With- out Lamartine there would be a blank in French literature . So we Americans may see clearly the defects of Bryant and of Whittier , and yet we may say that they are ...
... French critic suavely answered , " He is important to us . " With- out Lamartine there would be a blank in French literature . So we Americans may see clearly the defects of Bryant and of Whittier , and yet we may say that they are ...
Page 871
... French . Too much attention to contemporary British literature is dangerous for us , since its chief characteristics are ours by inheritance . Matthew Arnold held that it was a work of supererogation for Carlyle to preach ear- nestness ...
... French . Too much attention to contemporary British literature is dangerous for us , since its chief characteristics are ours by inheritance . Matthew Arnold held that it was a work of supererogation for Carlyle to preach ear- nestness ...
Page 895
... French Churches , and the exquisite drawing of the illuminations of English books ; while the Flemings , never very great in the art of building , towards the end of this period had found their true vocation as painters of a sweet and ...
... French Churches , and the exquisite drawing of the illuminations of English books ; while the Flemings , never very great in the art of building , towards the end of this period had found their true vocation as painters of a sweet and ...
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