 | 1831 - 652 pagina’s
...himself can tempt you not to skip. Nay, is not the diseased self-conscious state of Literature disclosed in this one fact, which lies so near us here, the...one, is this same knowing of the Why ; which many a Kames and Bossu has been, ineffectually enough, endeavouring to teach us : till at last these also... | |
 | University of Glasgow - 1836
...as the present, " I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man, whose generous heart would give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands — be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore." Following the example of their predecessors,... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 396 pagina’s
...could be so weak and foolish as to own its influence over his feelings, and could never for a moment give up the reins of his imagination into his author's...pleased he knew not why and cared not wherefore," was not likely to comment upon Shakespeare in a worthy spirit. A critic who would rightly estimate... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 370 pagina’s
...could be so weak and foolish as to own its influence over his feelings, and could never for a moment give up the reins of his imagination into his author's...pleased he knew not why and cared not wherefore," was not likely to comment upon Shakespeare in a worthy spirit. A critic who would rightly estimate... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pagina’s
...could be so weak and foolish as to own its influence over his feelings, and could never for a moment give up the reins of his imagination into his author's...pleased he knew not why and cared not wherefore," was not likely to comment upon Shakespeare in a worthy spirit. A critic who would rightly estimate... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1845 - 594 pagina’s
...himself can tempt you not to skip. Nay, is not the diseased self-conscious state of Literature disclosed in this one fact, which lies so near us here, the...would give up the reins of his imagination into his authors hands and be pleased he knew not why, and cared not wherefore," might lead him a long journey... | |
 | 1851 - 580 pagina’s
...could be so weak and foolish as to own its influence over his feelings, and could never for a moment give up the reins of his imagination into his author's...pleased he knew not why and cared not wherefore," was not likely to comment upon Shakespeare in a worthy spirit. This is from a paper on " False criticism... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pagina’s
...himself can tempt you not to skip. Nay, is not the diseased self-conscious state of Literature disclosed in this one fact, which lies so near us here, the...not why, and cared not wherefore," might lead him along journey now. Indeed, for our best class of readers, the chief pleasure, a very stinted one, is... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pagina’s
...himself can tempt you not to skip. Nay, is not the diseased self-conscious state of Literature disclosed in this one fact, which lies so near us here, the...imagination into his author's hands and be pleased he knew%ot why, and cared not wherefore," might lead him a long journey now. Indeed, for our best class... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1855 - 572 pagina’s
...self-conscious state of Literature disclosed in this one fact, which lies so near us here, the pry valence of Reviewing! Sterne's wish for a reader "that would...one, is this same knowing of the Why; which many a Kames and Bossu has been, ineffectually enough, endeavouring to teach us : till at last these also... | |
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... might lead him a long journey now. Indeed, for our best class of readers, the chief pleasure, a very stinted one, is this same knowing of the Why ; which many a Kames and Bossu... 
