Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... 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 struck some ...
... 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 struck some ...
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... century later his verse and prose might have come closer to the heart of his people , without losing that exquisite fineness which reveals the rare and beautiful quality of his genius . It is hardly pos- sible to miss the significance ...
... century later his verse and prose might have come closer to the heart of his people , without losing that exquisite fineness which reveals the rare and beautiful quality of his genius . It is hardly pos- sible to miss the significance ...
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... deeper things for which this fatally endowed spirit stood ; for the light is more than the medium through which it shines . LORD MACAULAY A SURVEY OF FOUR CENTURIES [ Address by POE'S PLACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 835.
... deeper things for which this fatally endowed spirit stood ; for the light is more than the medium through which it shines . LORD MACAULAY A SURVEY OF FOUR CENTURIES [ Address by POE'S PLACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 835.
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... CENTURIES [ Address by Thomas Babington Macaulay , statesman , historian , es- sayist , poet ( born in Rothley Temple , Leicestershire , October 25 , 1800 ; died in Kensington , December 28 , 1859 ) , delivered before the Univer- sity ...
... CENTURIES [ Address by Thomas Babington Macaulay , statesman , historian , es- sayist , poet ( born in Rothley Temple , Leicestershire , October 25 , 1800 ; died in Kensington , December 28 , 1859 ) , delivered before the Univer- sity ...
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... survives all the transitory parts of which it is composed , a society which has a corporate existence and a perpetual succession , should review its annals , should retrace the stages of A SURVEY OF FOUR CENTURIES 837.
... survives all the transitory parts of which it is composed , a society which has a corporate existence and a perpetual succession , should review its annals , should retrace the stages of A SURVEY OF FOUR CENTURIES 837.
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