Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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Page 7
... known and thought in the world , and by in its turn making this known to create a current of true and fresh ideas . " Nor , again , ought we entirely to confine our attention to the perfectly legitimate , but at the same time the narrow ...
... known and thought in the world , and by in its turn making this known to create a current of true and fresh ideas . " Nor , again , ought we entirely to confine our attention to the perfectly legitimate , but at the same time the narrow ...
Page 10
... Some of the best critics whom many of us have known have never made themselves answerable for a line of printed matter . But criticism , as the developed activity of an educated mind , is clearly something different from 10 I CRITICISM.
... Some of the best critics whom many of us have known have never made themselves answerable for a line of printed matter . But criticism , as the developed activity of an educated mind , is clearly something different from 10 I CRITICISM.
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... known instances . The activity of the imagination is needed to correct this mechanical view , which treats it , to use an excellent comparison of Mr. Saintsbury's , as though it were to be played like a game of whist . The fatal ...
... known instances . The activity of the imagination is needed to correct this mechanical view , which treats it , to use an excellent comparison of Mr. Saintsbury's , as though it were to be played like a game of whist . The fatal ...
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... known belongs to the other sex , and if she did not acquire , she certainly improved , her aptitude by the habit , whenever she finished the reading of a book which left its footprints behind it , of writing out for herself a critical ...
... known belongs to the other sex , and if she did not acquire , she certainly improved , her aptitude by the habit , whenever she finished the reading of a book which left its footprints behind it , of writing out for herself a critical ...
Page 36
... known , but , to my thinking , a hardly less remarkable book - the Autobiography of Benjamin Robert Haydon , the painter , one of the most tragic figures in the history of art . The gigantic canvases by which he confidently expected to ...
... known , but , to my thinking , a hardly less remarkable book - the Autobiography of Benjamin Robert Haydon , the painter , one of the most tragic figures in the history of art . The gigantic canvases by which he confidently expected to ...
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