EssaysW. Heinemann, 1896 - 312 էջ |
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Էջ vii
... literature , that is some- times denied to sanguine strength and easy volubility . I am well aware that vitality and majesty are the primary qualities to demand both in life and literature . I have nothing but re- bellious horror for ...
... literature , that is some- times denied to sanguine strength and easy volubility . I am well aware that vitality and majesty are the primary qualities to demand both in life and literature . I have nothing but re- bellious horror for ...
Էջ ix
... literature and art is the passionate individual- ism into which we are betrayed . We cannot bring ourselves to speak or think very highly of the level of a man's work , unless the positive and tangible results of that work are in them ...
... literature and art is the passionate individual- ism into which we are betrayed . We cannot bring ourselves to speak or think very highly of the level of a man's work , unless the positive and tangible results of that work are in them ...
Էջ xi
... literature , it is the periods of re- publicanism that have left their mark on the world the periods that have been very conscious of , and very deferential to authority , have been invariably retrograde . What a dreary period in ...
... literature , it is the periods of re- publicanism that have left their mark on the world the periods that have been very conscious of , and very deferential to authority , have been invariably retrograde . What a dreary period in ...
Էջ xii
... literature are the letters of Gray and Horace Walpole , and the life of the Dictator himself . But these are not creative literature at all . Gray , as a poet , was comparatively sterile . Imagination , the jewel of the soul , had ...
... literature are the letters of Gray and Horace Walpole , and the life of the Dictator himself . But these are not creative literature at all . Gray , as a poet , was comparatively sterile . Imagination , the jewel of the soul , had ...
Էջ xiii
... these two a station in literature to which the majority of our busy , voluble , graphic writers must aspire in vain . ETON , July , 1895 . A. C. B. CONTENTS THE EVER - MEMORABLE JOHN HALES A MINUTE PHILOSOPHER Preface Xili.
... these two a station in literature to which the majority of our busy , voluble , graphic writers must aspire in vain . ETON , July , 1895 . A. C. B. CONTENTS THE EVER - MEMORABLE JOHN HALES A MINUTE PHILOSOPHER Preface Xili.
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