Modern Eloquence, Volume 8Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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... nature so sensitive as Poe's , a mind so delicately adjusted to its tools and its task , and so easily thrown out of relation to them , there was perhaps no other resource . Between the art of the author of " Israfel " and the life ...
... nature so sensitive as Poe's , a mind so delicately adjusted to its tools and its task , and so easily thrown out of relation to them , there was perhaps no other resource . Between the art of the author of " Israfel " and the life ...
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... nature , reared among a proud and sensitive people , Poe found in the region of pure ideality the material which expressed most clearly his genius , and received most perfectly the impress of his craftsmanship . In the themes with which ...
... nature , reared among a proud and sensitive people , Poe found in the region of pure ideality the material which expressed most clearly his genius , and received most perfectly the impress of his craftsmanship . In the themes with which ...
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... nature or by art . The surrounding country was a fruitful and sunny country , a country of cornfields and vineyards . In the city , the house of Bentivoglio bore rule , a house which vied with the house of Medici in taste and ...
... nature or by art . The surrounding country was a fruitful and sunny country , a country of cornfields and vineyards . In the city , the house of Bentivoglio bore rule , a house which vied with the house of Medici in taste and ...
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... nature and of God to every man . All that is neces- sary for the protection of life and limb , and liberty and property - all that constitutes human freedom - this , and nothing less than this , will be the remedy for the evil of which ...
... nature and of God to every man . All that is neces- sary for the protection of life and limb , and liberty and property - all that constitutes human freedom - this , and nothing less than this , will be the remedy for the evil of which ...
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... nature . French was the language of the courts of Europe when English was little better than a dialect of rough islanders . When Chaucer chose his native English as the vehicle of his verse he showed both courage and prescience - a cour ...
... nature . French was the language of the courts of Europe when English was little better than a dialect of rough islanders . When Chaucer chose his native English as the vehicle of his verse he showed both courage and prescience - a cour ...
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Page 1038 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 1112 - With the help of your good hands. Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant ; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer ; Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
Page 1138 - The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And close as sin and suffering joined We march to fate abreast.
Page 1148 - Oh say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 1138 - South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are".
Page 922 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 1079 - That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Page 1064 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 1138 - ... of yours, interlacing our industrial, commercial, civil, and religious life with yours in a way that shall make the interests of both races one. In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Page 1137 - Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the professions. And in this con nection it is well to bear in mind that whatever other sins the South may be called to bear, when it comes to business, pure and simple, it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world, and in nothing is this Exposition more eloquent than in emphasizing this chance.