 Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone...  Transcripts and Studies - Page 259by Edward Dowden - 1888 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 400 pages
...and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble...detecting the presence Or absence of high poetic quality, and also the degree of this quality, in all other poetry which we may place beside them. Short passages,... | |
 | 1880 - 402 pages
...and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble...detecting the presence or absence of high poetic quality, and also the degree of this quality, in all other poetry which we may place beside them. Short passages,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 626 pages
...their own dear land, their father land, Lacedremon.' Iliad, iii. 243-4 (translated by Dr. Hawtrey). dissimilar. But if we have any tact we shall find...detecting the presence or absence of high poetic quality, and also the degree of this quality, in all other poetry which we may place beside them. Short passages,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...and 'expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 'Then began he to call many things to remembrance,— all the lands which his valour conquered, and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...and expressions of the great masters, arid to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 'Then began he to call many things to remembrance, — all the lands which his valour conquered,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble them; it may be very 1 ' Then began he to call many things to remembrance, — all the lands which his valour conquered,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 626 pages
...were reposing, There, in their own dear land, their father-land, Lacedsemon/ dissimilar. But if \ve have any tact we shall find them, when we have lodged...detecting the presence or absence of high poetic quality, and also the degree of this quality, in all other poetry which we may place beside them. Short passages,... | |
 | 1886 - 626 pages
...moral impossibility while we are undergoing the peculiar and exacting discipline of Goethe to undergp at the same time the peculiar and exacting discipline...Homer addressed by Achilles to the suppliant Priam : xal at ytpov, Tt) -plv p.lv dxouofiev SUfiiov elvat ; "Nay, and thou too, old man, in former days... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 922 pages
...universal. To submit ourselves to as many masters as may be counted on the fingers of one hand, is peihaps as much as can really be accomplished in a lifetime...Homer addressed by Achilles to the suppliant Priam : Kal at ylpor, rJ ir/Hrplr ixofoptr S\3ior firm ; " Nay, and thou too, old man, in former days wast,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 pages
...POETRY 17 expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry. Of course we are not to require this other poetry to resemble...detecting the presence or absence of high poetic quality, and also the degree of this quality, in all other poetry which we may place beside them. Short passages,... | |
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