Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1919 - 379 páginas |
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... estimate of books and authors receives , on the whole , too little attention from critics . Critics usually prefer theorizing and airing their own views to looking up the facts . It is one of Coleridge's claims to distinc- tion as a ...
... estimate of books and authors receives , on the whole , too little attention from critics . Critics usually prefer theorizing and airing their own views to looking up the facts . It is one of Coleridge's claims to distinc- tion as a ...
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... estimation , the place , etc. , in which his author is held . Such " collective " criticism requires considerable research , but is a most necessary check to one's own judgment . Any special program is , of course , merely by way of ...
... estimation , the place , etc. , in which his author is held . Such " collective " criticism requires considerable research , but is a most necessary check to one's own judgment . Any special program is , of course , merely by way of ...
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... estimated ) in defiance of the wishes of the nation ? It is , says Swift , because he is an Englishman and has great friends . He proposes to meet the attempt by a general agreement not to take the halfpence . Briefly , the halfpence ...
... estimated ) in defiance of the wishes of the nation ? It is , says Swift , because he is an Englishman and has great friends . He proposes to meet the attempt by a general agreement not to take the halfpence . Briefly , the halfpence ...
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... estimate of the whole case . English statesmen and historians have found it so easy to expose his errors that they have thought his whole case absurd . The grievance was not what it was repre- sented ; therefore it is argued that there ...
... estimate of the whole case . English statesmen and historians have found it so easy to expose his errors that they have thought his whole case absurd . The grievance was not what it was repre- sented ; therefore it is argued that there ...
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... estimate of Goethe's genius that had been announced in the earlier critical paper on his " Wilhelm Meister , " it retains something of the malice of that paper . When we pass to the papers of historical description , it is hardly a ...
... estimate of Goethe's genius that had been announced in the earlier critical paper on his " Wilhelm Meister , " it retains something of the malice of that paper . When we pass to the papers of historical description , it is hardly a ...
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