Specimens of Modern English Literary CriticismWilliam Tenney Brewster Macmillan, 1919 - 379 páginas |
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... true that criticism should be " disinterested , ” that it should be " in able and honest hands , " that it should " endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world , " that " the critic should possess ...
... true that criticism should be " disinterested , ” that it should be " in able and honest hands , " that it should " endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world , " that " the critic should possess ...
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... true , as an " existential " fact . This primary conception of criticism as an expression of personal opinion is admirably phrased by Professor Saintsbury in his His- tory of Criticism , when , speaking of the object of his work , he ...
... true , as an " existential " fact . This primary conception of criticism as an expression of personal opinion is admirably phrased by Professor Saintsbury in his His- tory of Criticism , when , speaking of the object of his work , he ...
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... true . That Shakespeare , Milton , Wordsworth , and others are " classics can be demonstrated only by this method of uni- versal consent , by this broad argument from personality . We do not necessarily read these classics , but we hold ...
... true . That Shakespeare , Milton , Wordsworth , and others are " classics can be demonstrated only by this method of uni- versal consent , by this broad argument from personality . We do not necessarily read these classics , but we hold ...
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... true Whigs , in the best and most proper sense of the word , " and thoroughly loyal to the house of Hanover . Had there been a danger of a Catholic revolt , Swift's feelings might have been differ- ent ; but he always held that they ...
... true Whigs , in the best and most proper sense of the word , " and thoroughly loyal to the house of Hanover . Had there been a danger of a Catholic revolt , Swift's feelings might have been differ- ent ; but he always held that they ...
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... true spiritual purport of Christ's mission , and attached himself to Christ in the expectation of a political revolution to be effected by Christ's assumption of a temporal kingship or championship of the Jewish race , had determined to ...
... true spiritual purport of Christ's mission , and attached himself to Christ in the expectation of a political revolution to be effected by Christ's assumption of a temporal kingship or championship of the Jewish race , had determined to ...
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