Literature and Its ProfessorsBell & Daldy, 1867 - 292 páginas |
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... merit will undoubtedly aid him in the accomplishment of his desires . The truth is , literary men have lost no opportunity they ever possessed of advancing themselves ; but , on the contrary , have attained to positions they had not ...
... merit will undoubtedly aid him in the accomplishment of his desires . The truth is , literary men have lost no opportunity they ever possessed of advancing themselves ; but , on the contrary , have attained to positions they had not ...
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... merits not his own , and expects applause solely because he belongs to the army in which others have victoriously fought — just as I have seen in the streets the master of an im- mense mastiff taking to himself the attention and ...
... merits not his own , and expects applause solely because he belongs to the army in which others have victoriously fought — just as I have seen in the streets the master of an im- mense mastiff taking to himself the attention and ...
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... their opinions on what is inci- dent , and not permanent . They are without an intelligible and trustworthy standard whereby to test the merit of works that come before them ; but grope their way to the misbegotten verdicts with which we.
... their opinions on what is inci- dent , and not permanent . They are without an intelligible and trustworthy standard whereby to test the merit of works that come before them ; but grope their way to the misbegotten verdicts with which we.
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... merit that not the worst critic in England can gain- say his genius , two verdicts on a book are seldom alike . One writer informs his reader that the work under his review is the most powerful he has ever read ; another , that he has ...
... merit that not the worst critic in England can gain- say his genius , two verdicts on a book are seldom alike . One writer informs his reader that the work under his review is the most powerful he has ever read ; another , that he has ...
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... merit in the books that week after week are offered for their imprimatur ; but in the present state of literature amongst us there is unfortunately little opportunity for the manifestation of undue severity . Excessive leniency , rather ...
... merit in the books that week after week are offered for their imprimatur ; but in the present state of literature amongst us there is unfortunately little opportunity for the manifestation of undue severity . Excessive leniency , rather ...
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Página 158 - It lay long neglected, until, after many years, when I was newly escaped from college, I read the book, and procured the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience.
Página 204 - Lastly, his writings have set all our wits and men of- letters upon a new way of thinking, of which they had little or no notion before ; and though we cannot yet say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.
Página 232 - than I can say. I never remember any weather that was not too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry; but, however God Almighty contrives it, at the end of the year 'tis all very well.
Página 270 - and how could I, to whom culture and barbarism are alone of importance, hate a nation which is among the most cultivated of the earth, and to which I owe so great a part of my own cultivation?
Página 91 - The general purpose of the whole has been to recommend truth, innocence, honour, and virtue, as the chief ornaments of life ; but I considered, that severity of manners was absolutely necessary to him who would censure others, and for that reason, and that only, chose to talk in a mask.
Página 231 - He said that they had for several successive days observed a strange clergyman come into the coffeehouse, who seemed utterly unacquainted with any of those who frequented it ; and whose custom it was to lay his hat down on a table, and walk backward and forward at a good pace for half an hour or an hour, without speaking to any mortal, or seeming in the least to attend to any thing that was going forward there.
Página 227 - Bookseller's purpose, as Yorick's name is possibly of the two the more known ; — and the second will ease the minds of those who see a jest, and the danger which lurks under it, where no jest was meant.
Página 171 - That whereas Mr. Williams had refused to join with the congregation at Boston, because they would not make a public declaration of their repentance for having communion with the churches of England, while they...
Página 270 - Altogether, national hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. But there is a degree where it vanishes altogether, and where one stands to a certain extent above nations, and feels the weal or woe of a neighboring people, as if it had happened to one's own. This degree of culture was conformable to my nature, and I had become strengthened in it long before I had reached my sixtieth year.
Página 198 - We had not, when you left us, an inch of candle, a pound of coal, or a bit of meat in the house ; but we do not want now.