American Heritage: An Anthology and Interpretive Survey of Our LiteratureLeon Howard Heath, 1955 - American literature |
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... human eye indoors or out , that which distorts honest shapes or which creates unearthly beings or places or contingencies is a nuisance and revolt . Of the human form especially it is so great it must never be made ridiculous . Of ...
... human eye indoors or out , that which distorts honest shapes or which creates unearthly beings or places or contingencies is a nuisance and revolt . Of the human form especially it is so great it must never be made ridiculous . Of ...
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... human cranium . Human history , like all great movements , was cyclical , and returned to the point of beginning . The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination , with no analogue in nature . The ...
... human cranium . Human history , like all great movements , was cyclical , and returned to the point of beginning . The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination , with no analogue in nature . The ...
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... human nature than Eliot , he discovers no forlornly " hollow men " in his world and quite obviously looks for everything to end with a bang and not with a whimper . To him it is not merely this generation of human beings but all humanity ...
... human nature than Eliot , he discovers no forlornly " hollow men " in his world and quite obviously looks for everything to end with a bang and not with a whimper . To him it is not merely this generation of human beings but all humanity ...
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The New England Brahmins | 3 |
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW | 9 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES | 29 |
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