Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... Extension of University Teaching , April 23 , 1898 . which have gathered round the term Criticism in popular thought 3 An Address delivered to the Students of the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching, April 23, 1898.
... Extension of University Teaching , April 23 , 1898 . which have gathered round the term Criticism in popular thought 3 An Address delivered to the Students of the London Society for the Extension of University Teaching, April 23, 1898.
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Herbert Henry Asquith. which have gathered round the term Criticism in popular thought and speech . In the eyes of a great number of people a critic is nothing more than a censor , a critical attitude is equivalent to an attitude of ...
Herbert Henry Asquith. which have gathered round the term Criticism in popular thought and speech . In the eyes of a great number of people a critic is nothing more than a censor , a critical attitude is equivalent to an attitude of ...
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... 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 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 and ...
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... and not to be a party to that worst form of ex post facto legislation which imports modern standards of thought and taste into our judgments of the past . C It is perhaps encouraging in this connection to remind ourselves I 17 CRITICISM.
... and not to be a party to that worst form of ex post facto legislation which imports modern standards of thought and taste into our judgments of the past . C It is perhaps encouraging in this connection to remind ourselves I 17 CRITICISM.
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... thought " the Inferno abominable , the Purgatorio dubious , and the Paradiso tiresome . " This may take us back again for a moment to Voltaire , who himself spoke of Dante as a poet " qu'on loue toujours parce qu'on ne lit guère ...
... thought " the Inferno abominable , the Purgatorio dubious , and the Paradiso tiresome . " This may take us back again for a moment to Voltaire , who himself spoke of Dante as a poet " qu'on loue toujours parce qu'on ne lit guère ...
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