Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... example , it was the essentially critical speculations of Hume which , as we know from their own avowal , awoke Kant from his " dogmatic slumber , " and first " caused the scales to fall from the eyes " of Bentham , and thereby became ...
... example , it was the essentially critical speculations of Hume which , as we know from their own avowal , awoke Kant from his " dogmatic slumber , " and first " caused the scales to fall from the eyes " of Bentham , and thereby became ...
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... example , which I mentioned a moment ago , of the more specialised fields of critical activity — the aesthetic criticism of the arts - it will , I think , be found that the output , though even more copious , possesses in a far lower ...
... example , which I mentioned a moment ago , of the more specialised fields of critical activity — the aesthetic criticism of the arts - it will , I think , be found that the output , though even more copious , possesses in a far lower ...
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... examples - criticism becomes a mere vehicle for the trenchant and fervid exposition of a creed in which the writer himself has a vivid faith , and for the defence of which he often finds his most effective plan of campaign to consist in ...
... examples - criticism becomes a mere vehicle for the trenchant and fervid exposition of a creed in which the writer himself has a vivid faith , and for the defence of which he often finds his most effective plan of campaign to consist in ...
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... examples of the mischief which results from its neglect . Take for instance the methods of the founders of the Edinburgh Review . Review . With all their occasional dexterity and their conspicuous freshness and force , they perpetually ...
... examples of the mischief which results from its neglect . Take for instance the methods of the founders of the Edinburgh Review . Review . With all their occasional dexterity and their conspicuous freshness and force , they perpetually ...
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... examples of this sterilising subservience . The dramatic unities , " the so - called " dignity of history , " the conventions by which poetry has been from time to time confined to particular conditions of subject , structure , and ...
... examples of this sterilising subservience . The dramatic unities , " the so - called " dignity of history , " the conventions by which poetry has been from time to time confined to particular conditions of subject , structure , and ...
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