Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... a writer like Junius - exhibit some of the highest qualities of literary art ; but it is not criticism . There is another and a more legitimate applica- tion of the word which nevertheless requires to be closely 4 CRITICISM.
... a writer like Junius - exhibit some of the highest qualities of literary art ; but it is not criticism . There is another and a more legitimate applica- tion of the word which nevertheless requires to be closely 4 CRITICISM.
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... qualities either of scientific exactitude or of practical utility . The plain man , who seeks salvation with the art critics , very soon finds that he has condemned himself to wander in a blind and baffling twilight of cloudy dogma and ...
... qualities either of scientific exactitude or of practical utility . The plain man , who seeks salvation with the art critics , very soon finds that he has condemned himself to wander in a blind and baffling twilight of cloudy dogma and ...
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... qualities , some of them commonplace enough , which the ideal biographer ought to possess - quick observation , a retentive memory , a love of detail , a dash of hero - worship . We can also say , negatively , that it is not the least ...
... qualities , some of them commonplace enough , which the ideal biographer ought to possess - quick observation , a retentive memory , a love of detail , a dash of hero - worship . We can also say , negatively , that it is not the least ...
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... qualities , in a word , which combine to make up what we call Style . In all artistic production there are three factors - the subject , the form in which it is presented , and the vehicle by which the presentation is effected . In each ...
... qualities , in a word , which combine to make up what we call Style . In all artistic production there are three factors - the subject , the form in which it is presented , and the vehicle by which the presentation is effected . In each ...
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... qualities , well within every man's reach , but experience shows that in practice they are the rarest of all . The temper which I am endeavouring to describe is not in any sense one of intellectual detachment IV 95 CULTURE AND CHARACTER.
... qualities , well within every man's reach , but experience shows that in practice they are the rarest of all . The temper which I am endeavouring to describe is not in any sense one of intellectual detachment IV 95 CULTURE AND CHARACTER.
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