Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 831
... mind : an ideality disclosed in very different ways by Emerson and Lowell and Whittier ; an ideality which has made our literature pure and high , but has robbed it so far of a certain robustness and power shared by all the great ...
... mind : an ideality disclosed in very different ways by Emerson and Lowell and Whittier ; an ideality which has made our literature pure and high , but has robbed it so far of a certain robustness and power shared by all the great ...
Page 832
... mind is essentially materialistic . That judgment is impeached by the whole body of our literature , but Poe and Hawthorne made it absolutely untenable . Poe's dæmonic force , his passion for perfection of form , his ideality , and the ...
... mind is essentially materialistic . That judgment is impeached by the whole body of our literature , but Poe and Hawthorne made it absolutely untenable . Poe's dæmonic force , his passion for perfection of form , his ideality , and the ...
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... mind , this rare and subtle work- man made images of such exquisite shape and molding that by their very perfection they win us away from lesser and meaner ways of work . By the fineness of his crafts- manship he revealed the artistic ...
... mind , this rare and subtle work- man made images of such exquisite shape and molding that by their very perfection they win us away from lesser and meaner ways of work . By the fineness of his crafts- manship he revealed the artistic ...
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... mind was such as even he could not easily arrange or express . In truth there are few spectacles more striking or affecting than that which a great historical place of education presents on a solemn public day . There is something ...
... mind was such as even he could not easily arrange or express . In truth there are few spectacles more striking or affecting than that which a great historical place of education presents on a solemn public day . There is something ...
Page 841
... minds was now rapidly felt by the whole community ; for the invention of printing had brought books within the reach even of yeomen and of artisans . From the Mediterranean to the Frozen Sea , therefore , the public mind was everywhere ...
... minds was now rapidly felt by the whole community ; for the invention of printing had brought books within the reach even of yeomen and of artisans . From the Mediterranean to the Frozen Sea , therefore , the public mind was everywhere ...
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