Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... admirable phrase , " they think by proxy and talk by rote . " Before a man can criticise the works or the doings of his fellows to any purpose , he must have passed beyond this stage . He must have acquired the faculty of seeing things ...
... admirable phrase , " they think by proxy and talk by rote . " Before a man can criticise the works or the doings of his fellows to any purpose , he must have passed beyond this stage . He must have acquired the faculty of seeing things ...
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... admirable edition of De Quincey's works , with the assured certainty that , wherever he opens the book , he will be able to browse for half an hour on rare and succulent pasturage . De Quincey was no doubt more than a critic ; he was an ...
... admirable edition of De Quincey's works , with the assured certainty that , wherever he opens the book , he will be able to browse for half an hour on rare and succulent pasturage . De Quincey was no doubt more than a critic ; he was an ...
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... admirable as is the quality of French criticism , there is no need to go beyond our own literature , or farther back than the present century , for a storehouse of great master- 66 pieces of the art . I have already spoken 22 I CRITICISM.
... admirable as is the quality of French criticism , there is no need to go beyond our own literature , or farther back than the present century , for a storehouse of great master- 66 pieces of the art . I have already spoken 22 I CRITICISM.
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... admirable English translation . The stream of criticism never runs dry , and there is no subject worthy of the serious study of men upon which the last word has yet been said . I must now bring to a close these scattered hints 24 I ...
... admirable English translation . The stream of criticism never runs dry , and there is no subject worthy of the serious study of men upon which the last word has yet been said . I must now bring to a close these scattered hints 24 I ...
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... the best that has been thought and said we may nourish that temper of " admiration , hope , and love , " by which , as Wordsworth tells us , we really " live . " II BIOGRAPHY II BIOGRAPHY1 To the lover of books there 26 CRITICISM.
... the best that has been thought and said we may nourish that temper of " admiration , hope , and love , " by which , as Wordsworth tells us , we really " live . " II BIOGRAPHY II BIOGRAPHY1 To the lover of books there 26 CRITICISM.
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