The Works of James Russell Lowell: Literary essaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1890 |
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Pagina 7
... French lan- guage and by the natural bent of the French mind , which finds a predominant satisfaction in phrases if elegantly turned , and can make a despotism , po- litical or æsthetic , palatable with the pepper of epigram . The style ...
... French lan- guage and by the natural bent of the French mind , which finds a predominant satisfaction in phrases if elegantly turned , and can make a despotism , po- litical or æsthetic , palatable with the pepper of epigram . The style ...
Pagina 9
... French criticism , but the defect of this criticism was that it ignored imagination altogether , and sent Nature about her business as an impertinent baggage whose household loom competed unlaw- fully with the machine - made fabrics ...
... French criticism , but the defect of this criticism was that it ignored imagination altogether , and sent Nature about her business as an impertinent baggage whose household loom competed unlaw- fully with the machine - made fabrics ...
Pagina 11
... French manners , French morals , and above all French taste . Misfortune makes a shallow mind sceptical . It had made the king so ; and this , at a time when court patronage was the main sinew of authorship , was fatal to the higher ...
... French manners , French morals , and above all French taste . Misfortune makes a shallow mind sceptical . It had made the king so ; and this , at a time when court patronage was the main sinew of authorship , was fatal to the higher ...
Pagina 13
... French , nor Italian . " In matters of taste the Anglo - Saxon mind seems always to have felt a painful distrust of itself , which it betrays either in an affectation of burly contempt or in a pretence of admiration equally insincere ...
... French , nor Italian . " In matters of taste the Anglo - Saxon mind seems always to have felt a painful distrust of itself , which it betrays either in an affectation of burly contempt or in a pretence of admiration equally insincere ...
Pagina 16
... French stand- ards in taste and French principles in criticism . But he was always like a deserter who cannot feel happy in the victories of the alien arms , and who would go back if he could to the camp where he naturally belonged ...
... French stand- ards in taste and French principles in criticism . But he was always like a deserter who cannot feel happy in the victories of the alien arms , and who would go back if he could to the camp where he naturally belonged ...
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