 | 1892 - 880 oldal
...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... | |
 | Richard Halkett - 1887 - 588 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1887 - 380 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1888 - 686 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1898 - 560 oldal
...purely indefinite, almost infinite, term. Such a line of demarcation has been drawn in the framing of the fourth definition given above, and it coincides...scientific in character, regarded as literature by many people, and on just grounds? Again, are the ideas expressed by such a poem as Poe's " Ulalume " fairly... | |
 | 1895 - 682 oldal
...dictionaries suggest, that of John Morley affords our best point of departure. " Literature," he says, " consists of all the books — and they are not so...largeness, severity, and attractiveness of form." But this definition, apart from its descriptive nature, seems to limit too narrowly the thing defined.... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 oldal
...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... | |
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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. 
