 We have poems which seem to exist merely for the sake of single lines and passages ; not for the sake of producing any total impression. We have critics who seem to direct their attention merely to detached expressions, to the language about the action,...  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 1671888Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 634 pages
...the merit of his piece depended on the brilliant things which arose under his pen as he went along. We have poems which seem to exist merely for the sake...to the language about the action, not to the action itaelt I verily think that the majority of them do not in their hearts believff that there is such... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1853 - 298 pages
...the merit of his piece depended on the brilliant things which arose under his pen as he went along. We have poems which seem to exist merely for the sake...lines and passages ; not for the sake of producing any total-impression. We have critics who seem to direct their attention merely to detached expressions,... | |
 | Scotland - 1854 - 798 pages
...merit of his piece depended on the brilliant things which arose under his pen as he went along. \Ve have poems which seem to exist merely for the sake...for the sake of producing any total impression. We hove critics who seem to direct their attention merelyto detached expressions, to the language about... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 386 pages
...piece depended on the brilliant things which arose under his pen as he went along. We have ^joerns which seem to exist merely for the sake of single...the sake of producing any total impression. We have crities who seem to direct their attention merely to detached expressions, to the language about the... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1857 - 614 pages
...under his pen as he went along. We have pocmь which teem to e jut merely for the saJte of single linct and passages ; not for the sake of producing any total impression. We have critici eAo *eem to direct their attention merely to detached passages, to the language about the action,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1864 - 608 pages
...opposite mistake of placing the essence of poetry in the action of the poem. " We have poems," he says, " which seem to exist merely for the sake of single...producing any total impression : we have critics who direct their attention merely to detached expressions, to the language about the action, not to the... | |
 | John Dennis - Pastoral poetry, English - 1865 - 344 pages
...the merit of his piece depended on the brilliant things which arose under his pen as he went along. We have poems which seem to exist merely for the sake...to the language about the action, not to the action iteelf. I verily think that the majority of them do not in their hearts believe that there is such... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 1078 pages
...But those who have stolen the seed of his flower of song, have too often, as Mr. Arnold says, written poems which seem to exist merely for the sake of single...not for the sake of producing any total impression. Against this Mr. Arnold justly protests. Fine writing for its own sake he abhors. He adopts as his... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Jules Jacques Veyrassat - Animals - 1874 - 318 pages
...merit of his piece depended on the brilliant things which arose under his pen as he went along. .... We have critics who seem to direct their attention...language about the action, not to the action itself. 'They \\l\l permit the poet to select any action he pleases, and to suffer that action to go as it... | |
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