The Forum, Volume 42Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach Forum Publishing Company, 1909 Current political, social, scientific, education, and literary news written about by many famous authors and reform movements. |
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Page 34
... better than Shakespeare . In Romeo and Juliet the plot is what it is because of an accident , which is indisputably arbitrary . In certain other of Shakespeare's plays the action is what it is because one or another of the characters ...
... better than Shakespeare . In Romeo and Juliet the plot is what it is because of an accident , which is indisputably arbitrary . In certain other of Shakespeare's plays the action is what it is because one or another of the characters ...
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... better terms - unless possibly through stipulations for a somewhat better grade of material — in the first quarter of 1909 than in the first quarter of 1907 , when the boom was at its height . And it is buying from the railway industry ...
... better terms - unless possibly through stipulations for a somewhat better grade of material — in the first quarter of 1909 than in the first quarter of 1907 , when the boom was at its height . And it is buying from the railway industry ...
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... better it will be for you . Where is your self - respect ? Where is your sense of decency ? " “ Muffin— ” said Miss Perry , but she got no further , because an im- perious finger stayed her . " Don't speak , " said Aunt Caroline ...
... better it will be for you . Where is your self - respect ? Where is your sense of decency ? " “ Muffin— ” said Miss Perry , but she got no further , because an im- perious finger stayed her . " Don't speak , " said Aunt Caroline ...
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... better . In the first place you ought not to have brought that man to Hill Street , and in the second I ought not to have allowed him to enter the house . However , the mischief is done . We must now take steps to repair it . " " I ...
... better . In the first place you ought not to have brought that man to Hill Street , and in the second I ought not to have allowed him to enter the house . However , the mischief is done . We must now take steps to repair it . " " I ...
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... better place to live by that time and took washin's in , and Billy wasn't never ashamed to have folks know he was a wash - woman's son . Only he used always to be sayin ' , ' Just wait till I'm big , mother , then you won't work for ...
... better place to live by that time and took washin's in , and Billy wasn't never ashamed to have folks know he was a wash - woman's son . Only he used always to be sayin ' , ' Just wait till I'm big , mother , then you won't work for ...
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Page 231 - The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve.
Page 246 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
Page 448 - America is God's crucible, the great Melting Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty hatreds and rivalries.
Page 236 - Wordsworth's poetry is great because of the extraordinary power with which Wordsworth feels the joy offered to us in nature, the joy offered to us in the simple primary affections and duties ; and because of the extraordinary power with which, in case after case, he shows us this joy, and renders it so . as to make us share it.
Page 221 - ... scudding drifts the rainy Hyades vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; for always roaming with a hungry heart much have I seen and known ; cities of men and manners, climates, councils, governments, myself not least, but...
Page 557 - ... unfair' list of the defendants or any of them, their agents, servants, attorneys, confederates, or other person or persons acting in aid of or in conjunction with them or which contains any reference to the complainant, its business or product in connection with the term 'unfair' or with the 'we don't patronize...
Page 542 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 537 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Page 236 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Page 557 - Boston. It is desired that the Sons and Daughters of Liberty would not buy any one thing of him, for in so doing they will bring disgrace upon themselves, and their posterity, forever and ever, amen.