Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... about its prin- ciples and formulate its canons . Look at Plato , Bacon , Goethe - to take only names which stand in the front rank - and ask yourselves how much of their work , if it came to be analysed I 5 CRITICISM.
... about its prin- ciples and formulate its canons . Look at Plato , Bacon , Goethe - to take only names which stand in the front rank - and ask yourselves how much of their work , if it came to be analysed I 5 CRITICISM.
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... look in vain for guiding principles in a jungle of jargon . Carlyle tells us that at one time John Sterling took to art criti- cism , for which he was well fitted by technical and historical knowledge . But , says his bio- grapher ...
... look in vain for guiding principles in a jungle of jargon . Carlyle tells us that at one time John Sterling took to art criti- cism , for which he was well fitted by technical and historical knowledge . But , says his bio- grapher ...
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... look at them had I been at large . " The great Goethe , to whom if to any one we should look for catho- licity of appreciation , told an Italian who asked him his opinion of Dante that he thought " the Inferno abominable , the ...
... look at them had I been at large . " The great Goethe , to whom if to any one we should look for catho- licity of appreciation , told an Italian who asked him his opinion of Dante that he thought " the Inferno abominable , the ...
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... look in vain in Rousseau or any of his imitators for Haydon's simplicity and sincerity . There is not a single phase of his experiences , from the day when he records how , at the age of eighteen , he left his home at Plymouth for ...
... look in vain in Rousseau or any of his imitators for Haydon's simplicity and sincerity . There is not a single phase of his experiences , from the day when he records how , at the age of eighteen , he left his home at Plymouth for ...
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... Haydon says that " not- withstanding that Paris was filled with all the nations of the earth , the greatest oddity in it was unquestionably David Wilkie . His horrible French , his strange , tottering , feeble look , II 39 BIOGRAPHY.
... Haydon says that " not- withstanding that Paris was filled with all the nations of the earth , the greatest oddity in it was unquestionably David Wilkie . His horrible French , his strange , tottering , feeble look , II 39 BIOGRAPHY.
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