Harper's Magazine, Volume 142Harper's Magazine Company, 1921 - American literature |
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... Middle West , where live Americans . The son of the Polish Jew on First Avenue is an American ; the son of the Alabama negro is an American . The son of the Pilgrims at Cape Cod is an American . My desire is to find out what unites ...
... Middle West , where live Americans . The son of the Polish Jew on First Avenue is an American ; the son of the Alabama negro is an American . The son of the Pilgrims at Cape Cod is an American . My desire is to find out what unites ...
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... Middle West , but what a slight leaven it is among these enormous masses of Scandinavians , Germans , Italians , so slight that the New England speech has disappeared in the rest of America , that the lean body has been obscured by a ...
... Middle West , but what a slight leaven it is among these enormous masses of Scandinavians , Germans , Italians , so slight that the New England speech has disappeared in the rest of America , that the lean body has been obscured by a ...
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... Middle West he seemed tempted not to reply . Then , hesitating , " You will find it strange . " He would not explain any more . He did not want to bury the Middle West , but he could not praise it . He revealed that he had never been ...
... Middle West he seemed tempted not to reply . Then , hesitating , " You will find it strange . " He would not explain any more . He did not want to bury the Middle West , but he could not praise it . He revealed that he had never been ...
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... middle nineteenth - century portions look just like the worst examples of South Kensington architecture , or even Dub- lin , which , as all English people know , is the most Victorian of our cities . Farther on , quite close to well ...
... middle nineteenth - century portions look just like the worst examples of South Kensington architecture , or even Dub- lin , which , as all English people know , is the most Victorian of our cities . Farther on , quite close to well ...
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... Middle West . The Yale man , though it is dangerous to generalize , strikes me as the compromise between old America and new America ; if Harvard is a semicolon in the Amer- ican phrase , then Yale is the hyphen between the old phrase ...
... Middle West . The Yale man , though it is dangerous to generalize , strikes me as the compromise between old America and new America ; if Harvard is a semicolon in the Amer- ican phrase , then Yale is the hyphen between the old phrase ...
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Page 471 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Page 67 - Fire and Ice SOME say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
Page 34 - There are waters blown by changing winds to laughter And lit by the rich skies, all day. And after, Frost, with a gesture, stays the waves that dance And wandering loveliness. He leaves a white Unbroken glory, a gathered radiance, A width, a shining peace, under the night.
Page 452 - I have looked upon, Both of them speak of something that is gone: The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat: Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
Page 807 - Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration. If England were swallowed up by the sea to-morrow, which of the two, a hundred years hence, would most excite the love, interest, and admiration of mankind - would most, therefore, show the evidences of having possessed greatness - the England of the last twenty years, or the England of Elizabeth, of a time of splendid spiritual...
Page 807 - Our coal, thousands of people were saying, is the real basis of our national greatness; if our coal runs short, there is an end of the greatness of England. But what is greatness? — culture makes us ask. Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
Page 103 - Antiquity deserveth that reverence, that men should make a stand thereupon, and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression.
Page 440 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
Page 69 - I had not taken the first step in knowledge: I had not learned to let go with the hands, As still I have not learned to with the heart, And have no wish to with the heart — nor need That I can see. The mind — is not the heart.
Page 70 - The bam opposed across the way, That would have joined the house in flame Had it been the will of the wind, was left To bear forsaken the place's name. No more it opened with all one end For teams that came by the stony road To drum on the floor with scurrying hoofs And brush the mow with the summer load.