The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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Page 295
... moral elements , and stim- ulating aspirations , and meditations on the unknown . WALT WHITMAN , Democratic Vistas ... moral . This moral is that the flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep , that it takes a great deal of ...
... moral elements , and stim- ulating aspirations , and meditations on the unknown . WALT WHITMAN , Democratic Vistas ... moral . This moral is that the flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep , that it takes a great deal of ...
Page 383
... moral grounds which persuaded the North . The difference here is immense . In human history a moral victory is always a disaster , for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished . The triumph of sin in 1865 would have ...
... moral grounds which persuaded the North . The difference here is immense . In human history a moral victory is always a disaster , for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished . The triumph of sin in 1865 would have ...
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... moral cast . So I shall try a preliminary definition of the poet's traditional function on behalf of society : he proposed to make virtue delicious . He com- pounded a moral effect with an aesthetic effect . The total effect was not a ...
... moral cast . So I shall try a preliminary definition of the poet's traditional function on behalf of society : he proposed to make virtue delicious . He com- pounded a moral effect with an aesthetic effect . The total effect was not a ...
Contents
WE LOOK AT OURSELVES AND OUR COUNTRY | 1 |
of Americans | 9 |
a Look at the Country | 65 |
Copyright | |
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