 It obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the best that is known and thought in the world, irrespectively of practice, politics, and everything of the kind; and to value knowledge and thought as they approach this best, without the intrusion of...  Proceedings - Page 3by Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1864 - 446 pages
...disparaging one. But criticism, real criticism, is essentially the exercise of this very quality ; it obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the...they approach this best, without the intrusion of any otnei; considerations whatever. This is an instinct for which there is, I think, little original sympathy... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 334 pages
...disparaging one. But criticism, real criticism, is essentially tlie exercise of this very quality; it obeys an instinct, prompting it to try to know the...approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever. This is an instinct for which there is, I think, little original sympathy... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1865 - 332 pages
...disparaging one. But criticism, real criticism, is essentially the exercise of this very quality; it obeys an instinct, prompting it to try to know the...approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever. This is an instinct for which there is, I think, little original sympathy... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1875 - 468 pages
...disparaging one. But criticism, real criticism, is essentially the exercise of this very quality. It obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the...approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever. This is an instinct for which there is, I think, little original sympathy... | |
 | English periodicals - 1878 - 520 pages
...to ideas and all subjects, for their own sakes, apart from any practical interest they may serve; it obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the...approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever." This is a view of criticism which, if it has a bearing on poetry, has a still... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English prose literature - 1880 - 354 pages
...disparaging one. But ' criticism, real criticism, is essentially the exercise of this very quality. It obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the...approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever. This is an instinct for which there is, I think, little original sympathy... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1883 - 866 pages
...say on the subject:—"The real critic olx;ys an instinct prompting him to try to know the Ixjst that is known and thought in the world, irrespectively...the intrusion of any other consideration whatever." The social macaw or mocking-bird, on the contrary, seems to obey an instinct prompting him to try to... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1895 - 172 pages
...disparaging one. But criticism, real criticism, is essentially the exercise of this very quality. It obeys an instinct prompting it to try to know the...approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever. This is an instinct for which there is, I think, little original sympathy... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1897 - 460 pages
...disparaging one. But criticism, real criticism, is| essentially the exercise of this very quality. It obeys! an instinct prompting it to try to know the...known and thought in the world, irrespectively of 5 practice, politics, and everything of the kind ; and to value knowledge and thought as they approach... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 456 pages
...~" irresp«r:t'vply Ts known and~"tnou£ht in_J:he practice", politics, and^erjj;hinj^ifj;hljynd ; and to value knowledge and thought as they approach this best, without the intrusion of any other considerations whatever. This is an instinct for which there is, I think, little original sympathy... | |
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