The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 95Atlantic Monthly Company, 1905 - American essays |
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... possible that it may lie , at times , with some prenatal or premillennial prejudices of the boarders themselves . Our " readable proposition , " then , is the discussion from month to month , by many men of many minds , of that Ameri ...
... possible that it may lie , at times , with some prenatal or premillennial prejudices of the boarders themselves . Our " readable proposition , " then , is the discussion from month to month , by many men of many minds , of that Ameri ...
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... possible for him to receive only well- based or well - worded compliments . It was , alas , more possible , nay probable , that the speaker might be haunted for twenty - four hours , waking or sleeping , by the ghost of some error ...
... possible for him to receive only well- based or well - worded compliments . It was , alas , more possible , nay probable , that the speaker might be haunted for twenty - four hours , waking or sleeping , by the ghost of some error ...
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... possible that more than one lecturer returning home from a long trip , and hearing these successive in- quiries , may have asked of himself a simi- lar question . Yet there was unquestion- ably fun in a western lecture , after all . XX ...
... possible that more than one lecturer returning home from a long trip , and hearing these successive in- quiries , may have asked of himself a simi- lar question . Yet there was unquestion- ably fun in a western lecture , after all . XX ...
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... possible to submit to it . " The implication is clear that there was contemplated the possible negotiation of treaties of a general and permanent character for the settlement of international differences by any peace- able method . The ...
... possible to submit to it . " The implication is clear that there was contemplated the possible negotiation of treaties of a general and permanent character for the settlement of international differences by any peace- able method . The ...
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... possible that Breitmann's Latin lyric is not devoid of merit , since assuredly no- body ever wrote a worse . " But macaronics are for the few ; for the many , the cleverness of the German - Eng- lish would have been no attraction ...
... possible that Breitmann's Latin lyric is not devoid of merit , since assuredly no- body ever wrote a worse . " But macaronics are for the few ; for the many , the cleverness of the German - Eng- lish would have been no attraction ...
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Page 258 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 646 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...
Page 265 - Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 341 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 559 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Page 657 - Till, like the certain wands of Jacob's wit, Their verses tallied. Easy was the task : A thousand handicraftsmen wore the mask Of Poesy. Ill-fated, impious race ! That blasphemed the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it, — no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepit standard out, Marked with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau...
Page 9 - And in poetry, no less than in life, he is * a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Page 265 - To try and approach truth on one side after another, not to strive or cry, nor to persist in pressing forward, on any one side, with violence and self-will — it is only thus, it seems to me, that mortals may hope to gain any vision of the mysterious Goddess, whom we shall never see except in outline, but only thus even in outline.
Page 10 - ... he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise. It cost him nothing to say No; indeed he found it much easier than to say Yes. It seemed as if his first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit, of course, is a little chilling to the social affections; and...
Page 109 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken; The word by seers or sibyls told In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.