Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 829
... sense of freshness and originality which men are always eager to feel , and to which they often respond with exag- gerated cordiality . It is not surprising that those who are full of the passion to create , and rarely endowed with the ...
... sense of freshness and originality which men are always eager to feel , and to which they often respond with exag- gerated cordiality . It is not surprising that those who are full of the passion to create , and rarely endowed with the ...
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... sense abnormal ; it readily relates itself to English character and society . The tragic element in Scott and Dickens has the same natural setting , the same normal relationship to obvious social or political conditions . The tragic ...
... sense abnormal ; it readily relates itself to English character and society . The tragic element in Scott and Dickens has the same natural setting , the same normal relationship to obvious social or political conditions . The tragic ...
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... sense of Polybius . It was while he was occupied with cares like these that his attention was called to the intellectual wants of this region , a region now swarming with population , rich with culture , and resounding with the clang of ...
... sense of Polybius . It was while he was occupied with cares like these that his attention was called to the intellectual wants of this region , a region now swarming with population , rich with culture , and resounding with the clang of ...
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... sense of style . It has lightness of touch , and it has also and always intellectual seriousness . The literature is like the language ; and Voltaire declared that what was not clear was not French . And the language itself is the fit ...
... sense of style . It has lightness of touch , and it has also and always intellectual seriousness . The literature is like the language ; and Voltaire declared that what was not clear was not French . And the language itself is the fit ...
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... sense . For us to follow the lead of the British in litera- ture or in any other art is but saying ditto to ourselves . It is like the marriage of cousins - and for the same rea- sons to be deplored . But the study of Greek literature ...
... sense . For us to follow the lead of the British in litera- ture or in any other art is but saying ditto to ourselves . It is like the marriage of cousins - and for the same rea- sons to be deplored . But the study of Greek literature ...
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