Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 54; Volume 117Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1891 |
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Page 84
... given . What has given ground for the preju- dice is certainly the established indiffer- ence of the ruling classes to the claim that British artists have honestly earned , that they might be allowed to work on a scale deserving to be ...
... given . What has given ground for the preju- dice is certainly the established indiffer- ence of the ruling classes to the claim that British artists have honestly earned , that they might be allowed to work on a scale deserving to be ...
Page 85
... given them more joy when the impostor was a foreigner ; and thus the public prejudice against native power has been increased . The fact is that our misfortune is in the general flippant esti- mate by the great of the importance of Art ...
... given them more joy when the impostor was a foreigner ; and thus the public prejudice against native power has been increased . The fact is that our misfortune is in the general flippant esti- mate by the great of the importance of Art ...
Page 98
... given America a literature which could properly have been called Ameri- can , if it would really have turned a colo- nial poetry into a national one - then the story of America is but another illustra- tion of the great truth that ...
... given America a literature which could properly have been called Ameri- can , if it would really have turned a colo- nial poetry into a national one - then the story of America is but another illustra- tion of the great truth that ...
Page 99
... given in summary ab- stract , told in an ancient Semitic dialect , is inscribed in cuneiform characters upon a tablet of burnt clay . Many thousands of such tablets , collected by Assurbanipal , King of Assyria in the middle of the sev ...
... given in summary ab- stract , told in an ancient Semitic dialect , is inscribed in cuneiform characters upon a tablet of burnt clay . Many thousands of such tablets , collected by Assurbanipal , King of Assyria in the middle of the sev ...
Page 106
... given it up . But , as Goethe has re- marked , there is nothing more terrible than energetic ignorance ; and there are , even yet , very energetic people , who are neither candid , nor clear - headed , nor theologians , still less ...
... given it up . But , as Goethe has re- marked , there is nothing more terrible than energetic ignorance ; and there are , even yet , very energetic people , who are neither candid , nor clear - headed , nor theologians , still less ...
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