The American Mercury, Том 1George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken American Mercury, 1924 |
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... mind , it has no excuse for ever being perfunctory or languid . All is immediate , all is intense . This gives the excuse for an occasional heightening of the language nearly to the pitch of poetry , as here : “ As he listened to the ...
... mind , it has no excuse for ever being perfunctory or languid . All is immediate , all is intense . This gives the excuse for an occasional heightening of the language nearly to the pitch of poetry , as here : “ As he listened to the ...
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... mind . Old , old songs that he had known long ago in the old country . . . His little visitor stood quite still as his faint quavering voice sounded with a kind of dim sweetness in the sunshine . . . . " Du , du , liegst mir im Herzen ...
... mind . Old , old songs that he had known long ago in the old country . . . His little visitor stood quite still as his faint quavering voice sounded with a kind of dim sweetness in the sunshine . . . . " Du , du , liegst mir im Herzen ...
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... mind - in brief , to attempt a realistic presentation of the whole gaudy , gorgeous American scene - this will be the principal enterprise of THE AMERICAN MERCURY . T He general tendency of the human race to stampede 30 THE AMERICAN ...
... mind - in brief , to attempt a realistic presentation of the whole gaudy , gorgeous American scene - this will be the principal enterprise of THE AMERICAN MERCURY . T He general tendency of the human race to stampede 30 THE AMERICAN ...
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... mind that true greatness is a quality possessed alone by generals , diplomats and politicians . Only a pen- sioner of George V will ever suggest that Franklin was greater as a scientist than as a diplomat ; no one but a snivelling sub ...
... mind that true greatness is a quality possessed alone by generals , diplomats and politicians . Only a pen- sioner of George V will ever suggest that Franklin was greater as a scientist than as a diplomat ; no one but a snivelling sub ...
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... mind . If you had chosen the art of painting as your sub- ject , you would have done well to talk to me about my experiences in the French studios , why I gave up painting , if I ever dabbled in it still . Modern painting would lead up ...
... mind . If you had chosen the art of painting as your sub- ject , you would have done well to talk to me about my experiences in the French studios , why I gave up painting , if I ever dabbled in it still . Modern painting would lead up ...
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Страница 362 - In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Страница 331 - The sparkles of our ashes. One great clime, Whose vigorous offspring by dividing ocean Are kept apart and nursed in the devotion Of Freedom, which their fathers fought for, and...
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Страница 466 - Do you term that perpetual, pistareen, paste-pot work, American art, American drama, taste, verse? I think I hear, echoed as from some mountain-top afar in the west, the scornful laugh of the Genius of these States.
Страница 188 - I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.
Страница 361 - They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point which, by way of eminence, becomes the criterion of their happiness.
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Страница 31 - No history or other book shall be adopted for use or be used in any district school, city school, vocational school or high school which falsifies the facts regarding the war of independence, or the war of 1812, or which defames our nation's founders, or misrepresents the ideals and causes for which they struggled and sacrificed, or which contains propaganda favorable to any foreign government.