| 1835 - 932 pages
...closedfor ever. THE LAKE SCHOOL OF POETRY.* Poetry has this much, at least, in common with religion, that its standards were fixed long ago, by certain...authority it is no longer lawful to call in question ; and that many profess lo be entirely devoted to it, who have no good works to produce in support... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...SCHOOL OF POETRY.* Poetry has this much, at least, in common with religion, that its standards v.ere fixed long ago, by certain inspired writers, whose...authority it is no longer lawful to call in question ; and that many profess to be entirely devoted to it, who have no good works to produce in support... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 412 pages
...excited, half tremulous, half delighted society, looking for something bad enough and violent enough f , to thrill them through and through, did somehow manage...It is well known that the most liberal politics by no means involve liberality in religious questions ; but in matters of literature, the mere existence... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 410 pages
...all established authorities, was on every point of literary tradition as steady as the Anti- Jacobin itself, and not more liberal. " Poetry has this much...It is well known that the most liberal politics by no means involve liberality in religious questions ; but in matters of literature, the mere existence... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 416 pages
...all established authorities, was on every point of literary tradition as steady as the Anti- Jacobin itself, and not more liberal. " Poetry has this much...It would have been very much in consonance with the supposed'principles of the writer if this beginning had led to a daring renunciation of any such allegiance... | |
| Sir Hall Caine - Criticism - 1883 - 302 pages
...associates. This is how the article begins : ' Poetry has this much, at least, in common with religion, that its standards were fixed long ago, by certain...authority it is no longer lawful to call in question.' It will be agreed that the temper of such criticism hardly seems promising of any just or even tolerant... | |
| Sir Hall Caine - Criticism - 1883 - 302 pages
...This is how the article begins : X ' Poetry has this much, at least, in common with religion, that y its standards were fixed long ago, by certain inspired...authority it is no longer lawful to call in question.' It will be agreed that the temper of such criticism hardly seems promising of any just or even tolerant... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1889 - 346 pages
...the upper hand. " This popular belief reached " (says her daughter) " our father's amazed and anmsed ears by the question asked him in sad earnest by a...It is well known that the most liberal politics by no means involve liberality in religious questions ; but in matters of literature, the mere existence... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1889 - 348 pages
...' awfully misled'?" These were the principles with which our young writers were also credited—but though the whole excited, half tremulous, half delighted...It is well known that the most liberal politics by no means involve liberality in religious questions; but in matters of literature, the mere existence... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1895 - 350 pages
...and wrath in his eyes, which is the true inspiration of a " slashing article." The Saturday JReview, at its institution, could in this respect have taught...It is well known that the most liberal politics by no means involve liberality in religious questions ; but in matters of literature, the mere existence... | |
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