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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... played an important part in our development , but it seems to me certain that that development is largely due to the special character of our patent system and its efficiency in encouraging invention . What is our patent system , not ...
... played an important part in our development , but it seems to me certain that that development is largely due to the special character of our patent system and its efficiency in encouraging invention . What is our patent system , not ...
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... play , listeners to a story , or readers of a novel or an epic , we not only permit this departure from the circumstances of actual life , we demand it absolutely . By tacit convention we authorize the author to vary from the exact fact ...
... play , listeners to a story , or readers of a novel or an epic , we not only permit this departure from the circumstances of actual life , we demand it absolutely . By tacit convention we authorize the author to vary from the exact fact ...
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... plays and those novels to be the finest and the most enduring in which we are made to feel that nothing has happened by accident or because the author himself intervened at the critical moment , and in which every action of every ...
... plays and those novels to be the finest and the most enduring in which we are made to feel that nothing has happened by accident or because the author himself intervened at the critical moment , and in which every action of every ...
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... play , then this act of his focusses our attention and we cannot help noticing it . But if this arbitrary character is unimportant in himself we pay little heed to him , and we do not even note his departure from truth . In the first ...
... play , then this act of his focusses our attention and we cannot help noticing it . But if this arbitrary character is unimportant in himself we pay little heed to him , and we do not even note his departure from truth . In the first ...
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... play , their reformation in the twinkling of an eye , does not vex us , because we really do not care what they may do or how completely they may contradict themselves . So also in Much Ado About Nothing , the malignant machinations of ...
... play , their reformation in the twinkling of an eye , does not vex us , because we really do not care what they may do or how completely they may contradict themselves . So also in Much Ado About Nothing , the malignant machinations of ...
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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.