Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1919 - 379 páginas |
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... pleasure ; a desire , as with Arnold , to keep people from dying in their literary sins ; the need of money all these are adequate motives for the pro- duction of critical work . Hence criticism may also take any form it pleases . Here ...
... pleasure ; a desire , as with Arnold , to keep people from dying in their literary sins ; the need of money all these are adequate motives for the pro- duction of critical work . Hence criticism may also take any form it pleases . Here ...
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... pleasure of the venerable Mr. Wood . " A simple constitutional precedent might rouse a Hampden ; but to stir a popular agitation it is as well to show that the evil actually inflicted is gigantic , indepen- dently of possible results ...
... pleasure of the venerable Mr. Wood . " A simple constitutional precedent might rouse a Hampden ; but to stir a popular agitation it is as well to show that the evil actually inflicted is gigantic , indepen- dently of possible results ...
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... pleasure when I hear of a mortality in any country parish or village , where the wretches are forced to pay for a filthy cabin and two ridges of potatoes treble the worth ; brought up to steal and beg for want of work ; to whom death ...
... pleasure when I hear of a mortality in any country parish or village , where the wretches are forced to pay for a filthy cabin and two ridges of potatoes treble the worth ; brought up to steal and beg for want of work ; to whom death ...
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... pleasure and sympathy . Remotely , it may travel towards an object seated in what Lord Bacon calls dry light ; but , proximately , it does and must operate , else it ceases to be a literature of power , in and through that humid light ...
... pleasure and sympathy . Remotely , it may travel towards an object seated in what Lord Bacon calls dry light ; but , proximately , it does and must operate , else it ceases to be a literature of power , in and through that humid light ...
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... pleasure mixed illegiti- mately with the forbidden and horrible . For a lighter and more genial specimen of De Quincey in his whimsical vein , Sortilege and Astrology may be cordially recommended . To pass from such papers to Early ...
... pleasure mixed illegiti- mately with the forbidden and horrible . For a lighter and more genial specimen of De Quincey in his whimsical vein , Sortilege and Astrology may be cordially recommended . To pass from such papers to Early ...
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