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Page 6
To those of my friends , who have often expressed a wish that I “ could find time to
write , ” it will be a satisfaction to know that , though the last twenty months is the
first period in my life when it has been permitted me to make my pen my chief ...
To those of my friends , who have often expressed a wish that I “ could find time to
write , ” it will be a satisfaction to know that , though the last twenty months is the
first period in my life when it has been permitted me to make my pen my chief ...
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An essay on Criticism were a serious matter ; for , though this age be
emphatically critical , the writer would still find it ... Meanwhile let us not venture to
write on criticism , but , by classifying the critics , imply our hopes and thereby our
thoughts .
An essay on Criticism were a serious matter ; for , though this age be
emphatically critical , the writer would still find it ... Meanwhile let us not venture to
write on criticism , but , by classifying the critics , imply our hopes and thereby our
thoughts .
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The use of criticism , in periodical writing is to sift , not to ranowo w stamp a work .
Yet should they not be “ sieves and drainers for the use of luxurious readers , ”
but for the use of earnest inquirers , giving voice and being to their objections , as
...
The use of criticism , in periodical writing is to sift , not to ranowo w stamp a work .
Yet should they not be “ sieves and drainers for the use of luxurious readers , ”
but for the use of earnest inquirers , giving voice and being to their objections , as
...
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... wear the distinctive traits of individual life , or to file away what does not suit
them , till the essay , made true to their design , is made false to the mind of the
writer . An external consistency is thus produced , at the expense of all salient ...
... wear the distinctive traits of individual life , or to file away what does not suit
them , till the essay , made true to their design , is made false to the mind of the
writer . An external consistency is thus produced , at the expense of all salient ...
Page 19
Able and experienced men write for us , and we would know what they think , as
they think it not for us but for themselves . We would live with them , rather than
be taught by them how to live ; we would catch the contagion of their mental ...
Able and experienced men write for us , and we would know what they think , as
they think it not for us but for themselves . We would live with them , rather than
be taught by them how to live ; we would catch the contagion of their mental ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Art, Literature, and the Drama |
| Author | Margaret Fuller |
| Editor | Arthur Buckminster Fuller |
| Publisher | Brown, Taggard & Chase, 1860 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 25 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 449 pages |
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