 Literature consists of all the books — and they are not so many — where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form.  The Sewanee Review - Seite 2031898Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1892 - 880 Seiten
...scholars are in the main agreed. They would hardly quarrel with a recent writer who says that it " consists of all the books — and they are not so...— where moral truth and human passion are touched by a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." Shelley's description of poetry, as " the... | |
 | 1887 - 380 Seiten
...going to deal with another question with which I ought to have started. That is, what is literature ? Literature consists of all the books — and they...human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form ; and my notion of the literary student is one who through books explores... | |
 | Richard Halkett - 1887 - 588 Seiten
...going to deal with another question with which I ought to have started. That is, what is literature? Literature consists of all the books— and they are...human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form; and my notion of the literary student is one who through books explores... | |
 | 1888 - 686 Seiten
...out of caprichio, passion, or fancy, that you command or forbid them anything. — John Locke. — " Literature consists of all the books (and they are...human passion are touched with a certain largeness, variety, and attraction of form; and my notion of the literary student is one who, through books, explores... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1888 - 1260 Seiten
...printing of succeeding ages — that is literature. — Rev. Dr. Deems. . LITERATURE consists of all books (and they are not so many) where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certs in largeness, variety, and attraction of form ; and ny notion of the literary student is one... | |
 | Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland - 1891 - 168 Seiten
...the host of novels of the second and third order can easily be ascertained from larger catalogues. ] Literature consists of all the books — and they...human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form. My notion of the literary student is one who through books explores... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1891 - 182 Seiten
...the reader." (Brooke, 'English Literature,' p. 5.) — "Literature consists of all the books . . . where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." (J. Morley, ' On the Study of Literature,' pp. 39-40.) — "All knowledge... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 Seiten
...the very chance of chances. //. Gilts. Literature consists of all the books —and they 40 are not eoretical princi sanity, and attraction of form. John ¿forley. Literature draws its sap from the deep soil of human... | |
 | Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - 1894 - 218 Seiten
...thought most on literature hope to get from it, and most would desire to confer upon others by it. Literature consists of all the books — and they...human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form. My notion of the literary student is one who through books explores... | |
 | 1894 - 456 Seiten
...THE BOOKS OF 1893 WILL BECOME LITERATURE? " Literature consists of all the books — and they are not many— where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." — JOHS MOIÜ.EY. DURING the year 1893 the official organ of the... | |
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