Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1919 - 379 páginas |
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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 that it exists in the mind of the critics . What , so to speak , is the objective proof for such opin- ions , what is the demonstration , what the sanctions for any critical opinion whatsoever ? How can critical opinion about ...
... sense that it exists in the mind of the critics . What , so to speak , is the objective proof for such opin- ions , what is the demonstration , what the sanctions for any critical opinion whatsoever ? How can critical opinion about ...
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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 would have avoided . Corruption was at the prow and folly at the helm . The selfish ring which he had denounced so fiercely had triumphed . It had triumphed , as he held , by flattering the new dynasty , hoodwinking the nation ...
... sense would have avoided . Corruption was at the prow and folly at the helm . The selfish ring which he had denounced so fiercely had triumphed . It had triumphed , as he held , by flattering the new dynasty , hoodwinking the nation ...
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