 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
 | John Harrington Cox - 1908 - 248 Seiten
...the last analysis, an imaginary representation of life, as the author sees life." JOHN MORLEY. — "Literature consists of all the books, and they are...human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." ARLO BATES. — "Literature may be broadly defined as the adequate... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, Thomas H. Dickinson - 1908 - 508 Seiten
...predetermined purpose to judge books as the reflection of serious moral truths. He defines literature thus: "Literature consists of all the books — and they...human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity and attraction of form." "Art," he says, "is only the transformation into ideal and imaginative... | |
 | William MacPherson (M. A.) - 1908 - 108 Seiten
...presented cannot but influence the minds and characters of his pupils. " Literature," says Mr John Morley1, "consists of all the books — and they are not so...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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 Seiten
...pp. 166, 167. Literature consists of a whole body of classics in the true sense of the word. . . . 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... | |
 | 1907 - 156 Seiten
...a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. John Morley. — 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... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1912 - 136 Seiten
...operations of the human mind" (Newman: Literature, § 29). d). "Literature consists of all the books . . . where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attractiveness of form" (Morley: On the Study of Literature). e). "Literature is the verbal... | |
 | Loring Holmes Dodd - 1915 - 96 Seiten
...indicated by the use of quotation marks. Contrast with the above John Morley's definition of literature: "All the books — and they are not so many — where...human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity and attraction of form." Burrough's Literary Values, Ch. 1 A longer quotation is generally begun... | |
 | George Peck Eckman - 1915 - 220 Seiten
...POETRY AND ORATORY OF THE BIBLE "LITERATURE," says Lord Morley, "consists of all the books—and there are not so many— where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." He might have had the Bible before him as he framed this definition,... | |
 | George Peck Eckman - 1915 - 220 Seiten
...POETRY AND ORATORY OP THE BIBLE "LITERATURE," says Lord Morley, "consists of all the books—and there are not so many— where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." He might have had the Bible before him as he framed this definition,... | |
 | 1920 - 512 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... | |
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