Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 831
... genius , and of the lack of the forms of life about him to satisfy and inspire him . He expresses the dissonance which has so far existed between the essen- tially ideal quality of the American mind and the intensely practical character ...
... genius , and of the lack of the forms of life about him to satisfy and inspire him . He expresses the dissonance which has so far existed between the essen- tially ideal quality of the American mind and the intensely practical character ...
Page 832
... genius of great sensitiveness and its environment , and sets at naught the judgment , so often and so hastily reached , that the American mind is essentially materialistic . That judgment is impeached by the whole body of our literature ...
... genius of great sensitiveness and its environment , and sets at naught the judgment , so often and so hastily reached , that the American mind is essentially materialistic . That judgment is impeached by the whole body of our literature ...
Page 833
... genius was full of a distinction which involved and expressed re- moteness from average standards , detachment from the rush and turmoil of practical tasks . A nation at work with grimed hands is a noble spectacle ; but if such a people ...
... genius was full of a distinction which involved and expressed re- moteness from average standards , detachment from the rush and turmoil of practical tasks . A nation at work with grimed hands is a noble spectacle ; but if such a people ...
Page 834
... genius , and received most perfectly the impress of his craftsmanship . In the themes with which he dealt , and in the manner in which he treated them , he went far to eradicate the provincialism of taste which was the bane of his time ...
... genius , and received most perfectly the impress of his craftsmanship . In the themes with which he dealt , and in the manner in which he treated them , he went far to eradicate the provincialism of taste which was the bane of his time ...
Page 838
... genius which the highest minds still contemplate , and long will contemplate , with admiring despair . And at that very time , while the fanatical Moslems were plundering the churches and palaces of Constantinople , breaking in pieces ...
... genius which the highest minds still contemplate , and long will contemplate , with admiring despair . And at that very time , while the fanatical Moslems were plundering the churches and palaces of Constantinople , breaking in pieces ...
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