The Playhouse and the Play: And Other Addresses Concerning the Theatre and Democracy in America |
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... already accorded to those portions which I have delivered as addresses before several of our universities . As a result of that pleas- ant privilege , I discovered — what , I believe , is not yet realized by the public , nor perhaps by ...
... already accorded to those portions which I have delivered as addresses before several of our universities . As a result of that pleas- ant privilege , I discovered — what , I believe , is not yet realized by the public , nor perhaps by ...
Page 89
... already come when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids , and fill the post- poned expectations of the world with some- thing better than the exertions of mechanical skill . Our day of dependence ...
... already come when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids , and fill the post- poned expectations of the world with some- thing better than the exertions of mechanical skill . Our day of dependence ...
Page 90
... already suspected to be timid , imitative , tame . Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat . Young men of the fairest promise , who begin life upon our shores , inflated by the mountain winds , shined upon by ...
... already suspected to be timid , imitative , tame . Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat . Young men of the fairest promise , who begin life upon our shores , inflated by the mountain winds , shined upon by ...
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