Yes; constantly in reading poetry, a sense for the best, the really excellent, and of the strength and joy to be drawn from it should be present in our minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. The Iowa Normal Monthly - Page 1261881Full view - About this book
| Choice literature - 1880 - 400 pages
...outset, and should compel ourselves to revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...outset, and should compel ourselves to revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...outset, and should compel ourselves to revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...outset, and should compel ourselves to revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two... | |
| 1880 - 402 pages
...than inferior, sound rather than unsound or half sound, true rather than untrue or half true. Yes ; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 626 pages
...thought of it as we proceed. Vi\ti YeS; constantly, in reading poetry, a sense for the best, the ^7 really excellent, and of the strength and joy to be...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two... | |
| Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 pages
...outset, and should compel ourselves to revert constantly to the thought of it as we proceed. Yes ; constantly in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not watchful, by two... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1889 - 296 pages
...Thoroughly to enjoy Poetry we must not so limit ourselves, but must rise to a higher ideal. " Yes ; constantly in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds, and should govern our estimate of what we read." 2 Cicero, in his oration for Archias, well asked, " Has not this man then a right to my love, to my... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1890 - 514 pages
...Thoroughly to enjoy Poetry we must not so limit ourselves, but must rise to a higher ideal. " Yes ; constantly in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds, and should govern our estimate of what we read." 2 Cicero, in his oration for Archias, well asked, " Has not this man then a right to my love, to my... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - Christian life - 1891 - 304 pages
...1 Thoroughly to enjoy Poetry we must not limit ourselves, but must rise to a higher ideal. " Yes ; constantly in reading poetry, a sense for the best,...minds, and should govern our estimate of what we read." 2 Cicero, in his oration for Archias, well asked, " Has not this man then a right to my love, to my... | |
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