Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 891
... look upon with the greatest interest , as I well may , since , except perhaps the noble craft of house- building , it is second to none other . And in the midst of this industrious population , engaged in making goods . of such ...
... look upon with the greatest interest , as I well may , since , except perhaps the noble craft of house- building , it is second to none other . And in the midst of this industrious population , engaged in making goods . of such ...
Page 893
... look back a little to the early middle ages , the days of barbarism and confusion . As you follow the pages of the keen - eyed , cool - headed Gibbon , you may well think that the genius of the great historian has been wasted over the ...
... look back a little to the early middle ages , the days of barbarism and confusion . As you follow the pages of the keen - eyed , cool - headed Gibbon , you may well think that the genius of the great historian has been wasted over the ...
Page 895
... look round for some- thing more startlingly new than the slow , gradual change of architecture and the attendant lesser arts could give them . This change they found in the glorious work of the painters , and they received it with an ...
... look round for some- thing more startlingly new than the slow , gradual change of architecture and the attendant lesser arts could give them . This change they found in the glorious work of the painters , and they received it with an ...
Page 896
... look for an intricacy of treatment that the Greeks had never dreamed of ; men began to see hopes of reali- zing scenes of history and poetry in a far more complete way than the best of their forerunners had attempted . Yet for long the ...
... look for an intricacy of treatment that the Greeks had never dreamed of ; men began to see hopes of reali- zing scenes of history and poetry in a far more complete way than the best of their forerunners had attempted . Yet for long the ...
Page 897
... look through the art at that which the art rep- resented , they were now taught to deem the art an end in itself , and that it mattered nothing whether the story it told was believed or not . Once its aim was to see , now its aim was to ...
... look through the art at that which the art rep- resented , they were now taught to deem the art an end in itself , and that it mattered nothing whether the story it told was believed or not . Once its aim was to see , now its aim was to ...
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