Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster |
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... sense , any chance saying about an author or a book is criticism : it states a fact , a reality , a truth present in the mind of the speaker . That opinion may be modified by further reading and by the clash of opinion with opinion ...
... sense , any chance saying about an author or a book is criticism : it states a fact , a reality , a truth present in the mind of the speaker . That opinion may be modified by further reading and by the clash of opinion with opinion ...
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... sense , and are therefore understood by everybody , without thinking . They are like our own names , which seem the most familiar and appropriate things in the world — until we begin repeating them and revolving them in our minds , when ...
... sense , and are therefore understood by everybody , without thinking . They are like our own names , which seem the most familiar and appropriate things in the world — until we begin repeating them and revolving them in our minds , when ...
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... sense one may prove anything by illustration ; it is very easy to find some sort of illustration for any thesis that one may wish ; Shakespeare has been written down an ass by analysis and illus- tration ; and the charge brought against ...
... sense one may prove anything by illustration ; it is very easy to find some sort of illustration for any thesis that one may wish ; Shakespeare has been written down an ass by analysis and illus- tration ; and the charge brought against ...
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... sense , is really the main sanction and source of support for all critical opinion whatsoever . That this is so may be shown by two examples , which , though open to the charge of being illustrations , are nevertheless reason- ably true ...
... sense , is really the main sanction and source of support for all critical opinion whatsoever . That this is so may be shown by two examples , which , though open to the charge of being illustrations , are nevertheless reason- ably true ...
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... sense ; as expression , clear and orderly statement . VI Let us pursue the matter into the region of practice . Criticism is a very interesting field for both amusing and disciplinary study , and the writing of critiques is pleasing ...
... sense ; as expression , clear and orderly statement . VI Let us pursue the matter into the region of practice . Criticism is a very interesting field for both amusing and disciplinary study , and the writing of critiques is pleasing ...
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Page 267 - Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 266 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Page 300 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities : of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 289 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 145 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 59 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 146 - Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow (This — all this — was in the olden Time long ago), And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A winged odor went away.
Page 303 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assured And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Page 290 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Page 285 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...