A Guide to the Study of Literary CriticismWm. B. Burford, Pub., 1895 - 69 páginas |
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A Guide to the Study of Literary Criticism (1895) Angeline Parmenter Carey Pré-visualização indisponível - 2008 |
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æsthetic emotion Andrew Lang artist Augustine Birrell Bayard Taylor best critic branches Brander Matthews century Chapter character Charles Lamb cism Coleridge color composition critical faculty critical writing cultivation of taste D. J. Hill delicacy Directions for Criticising Edinburgh Review effect emotion aroused exercise of taste expression feeling George Saintsbury gives Goethe greatest interest Hamilton Wright Mabie harmony ideal ideas imagination judgment kind Lamb language Leslie Stephen litera LITERARY CRITICISM literary style masterpieces Matthew Arnold means melodious ment mind objects one's Panoramic Description Pathetic pathos picture pleasure poet poetry point of greatest point of view prose quality of style reader Reading Criticism reading of criticism Required Reading Rhetoric rhythm Richard Grant White Ruskin Saintsbury scene sense sensibility sentences sentiment soul sound spirit sublime take the place Theodore Child theories Thomas Carlyle thought tion trees ture Welsh says window Wit and Humor words
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Página 63 - Fitz-James alone wore cap and plume. To him each lady's look was lent, On him each courtier's eye was bent, Midst furs and silks and jewels sheen He stood, in simple Lincoln green, The centre of the glittering ring, — And Snowdoun's Knight is Scotland's King!
Página 58 - I observed him noting down even the peculiar little wild flowers and herbs that accidentally grew around and on the side of a bold crag, near his intended cave of Guy Denzil ; and could not help saying, that as he was not to be upon oath in his work, daisies, violets, and primroses would be as poetical as any of the humbler plants he was examining.
Página 41 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Página 58 - I understood him when he replied, 'that in nature herself no two scenes were exactly alike, and that whoever copied truly what was before his eyes, would possess the same variety in his descriptions, and exhibit apparently an imagination as boundless as the range of nature in the scenes he recorded...
Página 16 - ... a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, and thus to establish a current of fresh and true ideas.
Página 27 - I never met with a question yet, of any importance, which did not need, for the right solution of it, at least one positive and one negative answer, like an equation of the second degree. Mostly, matters of any consequence are three-sided, or four-sided, or polygonal ; and the trotting round a polygon is severe work for people any way stiff in their opinions. For myself, I am never satisfied that I have handled a subject properly till I have contradicted myself at least three times...
Página 38 - Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to our moral nature in its purity and perfection.
Página 16 - I must take leave to tell them, that they wholly mistake the nature of criticism who think its business is principally to find fault. Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is, to observe those excellencies which should delight a reasonable reader.
Página 51 - The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday ; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro : all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.
Página 37 - It is a metaphor, taken from a passive sense of the human body, and transferred to things which are in their essence not passive — to intellectual acts and operations.