English Literature of the Eighteenth Century: With a Preface on the Relations Between Literary History and Literary CriticismUniversity Tutorial Press, 1953 - 320 páginas |
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... kind of literary criticism that might be envisaged as taking the place of literary history . For what may be regarded as a virtue in a critic - the refusal to perceive the merit of any view not his own -- is a vice in an historian ...
... kind of literary criticism that might be envisaged as taking the place of literary history . For what may be regarded as a virtue in a critic - the refusal to perceive the merit of any view not his own -- is a vice in an historian ...
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... kind of impertinence more justly censurable than his who is always labouring to level his thoughts to intellects higher than his own , who apologises for every word which his own narrowness of converse inclines him to think unusual ...
... kind of impertinence more justly censurable than his who is always labouring to level his thoughts to intellects higher than his own , who apologises for every word which his own narrowness of converse inclines him to think unusual ...
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... kind of self- indulgence in the mysterious and the supernatural , a fitting hobby perhaps for a leisured gentleman who regarded pro- fessional men of letters like Johnson as beneath his notice , Yet his massive correspondence the latest ...
... kind of self- indulgence in the mysterious and the supernatural , a fitting hobby perhaps for a leisured gentleman who regarded pro- fessional men of letters like Johnson as beneath his notice , Yet his massive correspondence the latest ...
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