Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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Page 4
... course true that there have been eminent men in whom their own want of success in the sphere of action or production has at once stimulated and soured the critical faculty . But it is not in this dwarfed and distorted sense that we are ...
... course true that there have been eminent men in whom their own want of success in the sphere of action or production has at once stimulated and soured the critical faculty . But it is not in this dwarfed and distorted sense that we are ...
Page 16
... like a game of whist . The fatal consequences of defective imagination are , of course , no- where better illustrated than in the criticisms of 66 66 posterity upon historical characters and events . Mr. Morley 16 I CRITICISM.
... like a game of whist . The fatal consequences of defective imagination are , of course , no- where better illustrated than in the criticisms of 66 66 posterity upon historical characters and events . Mr. Morley 16 I CRITICISM.
Page 40
... course of his life a long series of unsatisfactory visits . This is his first experience . He says : " When you deal with a rascal , turn him to the light . I got him to the 66 light . His eyes shrank , his face was 40 II BIOGRAPHY.
... course of his life a long series of unsatisfactory visits . This is his first experience . He says : " When you deal with a rascal , turn him to the light . I got him to the 66 light . His eyes shrank , his face was 40 II BIOGRAPHY.
Page 44
... the secret of the art which can make them live again ? Sometimes , of course , the biographer may be said not so much to recreate as to create his hero . One cannot help feeling a suspicion of the kind in reading a 44 II BIOGRAPHY.
... the secret of the art which can make them live again ? Sometimes , of course , the biographer may be said not so much to recreate as to create his hero . One cannot help feeling a suspicion of the kind in reading a 44 II BIOGRAPHY.
Page 46
... course , sufficiently obvious . The bias of kin- ship , the blindness of discipleship , are undeni- able hindrances to just and even - handed judg- ment . But the true biographer is not a judge . He has no theory of his hero ; he ...
... course , sufficiently obvious . The bias of kin- ship , the blindness of discipleship , are undeni- able hindrances to just and even - handed judg- ment . But the true biographer is not a judge . He has no theory of his hero ; he ...
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