 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...Act iv. Sc. 3 CRITICISM — CRITICS. I am nothing if not critical. 916 Shaks. : OthMa. Act ii. Sc. I Nature fits all her children with something to do,...sell us his Petty conceit and his pettier jealousies. 917 James Russell Lowell: A Fable for Critics No author ever spared a brother ; Wits are game-cocks... | |
 | Bessie Bell Applegate - 1911 - 144 pages
...final stanza of the Fable, the superficiality and incompetence of the average critic ie summed up. "Nature fits all her children with something to do;...write can surely review, Can set up a small booth ae a critic and sell us his Petty conceit and his pettier Jealousies; Thus a lawyer's apprentice, just... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1917 - 662 pages
...each suggests opposite topics for song, They all shout together you 're right ! and you 're wrong I ' Nature fits all her children with something to do,...booth as critic and sell us his Petty conceit and hie pettier jealousies ; Thus a lawyer's apprentice, just out of his teens, Will do for the Jeffrey... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. LOWELL — Among My Books. Shakespeare Once More. e and Panther. POPE — Imitation of Horace. Bk. II....ashes to the taste. BYRON— Childe Harold. III. 34. LOWELL — Fable for Critics. 7 In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good... | |
 | James Russell Lowell, Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1924 - 522 pages
...shout together you 're right I and you 're wrong ! " Nature fits all her children with some' thing to do, He who would write and can't write can surely...set up a small booth as critic and sell us his Petty coneeit and his pettier jealousies; Thus a lawyer's apprentiee, just out of his teens, Will do for... | |
 | Kathryn Ann Lindskoog - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1989 - 284 pages
...with book reviewers. Over a century ago James Russell Lowell expressed this exasperation in verse: Nature fits all her children with something to do;...who would write and can't write, can surely review. More recently Kenneth Tynan, a literary critic who studied under CS Lewis, admitted, "A critic is a... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - Humor - 1992 - 552 pages
...Charles Edwin Carruthers To escape criticism — do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. — Elbert Hubbard Nature fits all her children with something to do,/...who would write and can't write, can surely review. — James Russell Lowell Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.... | |
 | James W. Chesebro, Dale A. Bertelsen - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 244 pages
...other hand, we may distrust the abilities and talents of critics. James Russell Lowell once wrote, Nature fits all her children with something to do,...who would write and can't write, can surely review. We will never dissolve all the mysteries and contradictions that surround critics. But we can systematically... | |
 | Arthur T. Vanderbilt - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 244 pages
...have failed; therefore they turn critics."5 This sentiment was set to verse by James Russell Lowell: Nature fits all her children with something to do; He who would write and can't write, can surely review.6 Brendan Behan said of drama critics, "Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They're there every... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...survey, visit: see often; visitant, visitation, etc. Via Fr, view, interview, preview, review, revue. Nature fits all her children with something to do;...who would write and can't write can surely review. -JR Lowell, Л Fable for Critics (1848) Fr, idée fixe; vis-à-vis, visage, envisage, clairvoyance;... | |
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can't write can surely review, Can set up a small booth as critic and sell us his Petty conceit and his pettier jealousies ; Thus a lawyer's apprentice, just out of his teens, Will... 
