An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern TimesG. Wahr, 1911 - 79 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
action animal wants arises artist aspect of things attained Balliol Balliol College become character circumstances conscious copy cumstances deeper laws Defoe destiny difference divine duction elements ELEVA emotion ence enjoyment epic poem erally essay essential excite experience expression fancy feeling Fiction In Modern fictitious forget fretful stir Unprofitable give Green HEGEL higher human ideal idealises ideas Iliad imitator incident individual intel ised istic Kant language legendary narrative lyric man's mankind material ment merely mind moral narrative nature neo-Hegelian never novel novel-reader novelist objects observation opher ordinary ourselves passion philos philosophy physiognomy Plato pleasure poet poetic poetry popular present Prolegomena to Ethics prosaic prose reader reality reflex represented scenes seems sense sentiment simply sion situation social society spirit sympathy thinking THOMAS HILL GREEN thought tion tragedian tragedy tragic true epic unity UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Value and Influence verse Walter Scott weakness
Pasajes populares
Página 49 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Página 50 - The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified indeed from what appear to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust) because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived...
Página 50 - Accordingly, such a language, arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings, is a more permanent, and a far more philosophical language, than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets...
Página 37 - We have not the least doubt that if Addison had written a novel, on an extensive plan, it would have been superior to any that we possess. As it is, he is 'entitled to be considered not only as the greatest of the English essayists, but as the forerunner of the great English novelists.
Página 50 - I controvert are contained in the sentences: "a selection of the real language of men " ; " the language of these men" (ie men in low and rustic life) "I propose to myself to imitate, and, as far as is possible, to adopt the very language of men.
Página 26 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods And mountains, and of all that we behold From this green earth...
Página 26 - There is another which is the work of the carpenter? Yes. And the work of the painter is a third? Yes. Beds, then, are of three kinds, and there are three artists who superintend them: God, the maker of the bed, and the painter?
Página 54 - In darkness, and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye! Thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!
Página 42 - ... being; but we must also inform him that in our State such as he are not permitted to exist; the law will not allow them. And so when we have anointed him with myrrh, and set a garland of wool upon his head, we shall send him away to another city.
Página 28 - Shall we, then, speak of Him as the natural author or maker of the bed? Yes, he replied ; inasmuch as by the natural process of creation He is the author of this and of all other things. And what shall we say of the carpenter — is not he also the maker of the bed? Yes. But would you call the painter a creator and maker?
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