Critics like to assume that the enthusiasm which breeds this kind of chivalrous poetry is dead and buried in the classics.
It was roused, no doubt, by the attitude of the official critics who were affecting to think that the influence of Rousseau was exploded.
While she lived, critics compared her with Goethe, but to the disadvantage of the sage of Weimar.
His English critics pointed out that, although a republican, Simondi rose above political prejudice.
The doctrine of the Pleiade had been as rigorous and lofty as a creed in literature could well be, and it rose to an altogether higher plane than was dreamed of by the English critics half a century later.
The critics of her own time were satisfied that she had done this, and that she had founded the psychological novel.
Elsewhere there have arisen critics of less, or more, or even of extreme merit, but nowhere else has there been a systematic training in literature which has embraced a whole generation, and has been intimately combined with ethics.
It was the fate of France to lose, within a few months, the two most prominent critics of the period succeeding that of which I have just spoken.
The Government is not what it appears to be to cross-grained critics seeking for a Rotation of suitable scapegoats.
When "The Bending of a Twig" was first published it was hailed by competent critics as the finest school story that had appeared since "Tom Brown.
I remember Mr Graham telling me once, before I had read the play, that the critics condemn Measure for Measure as failing in poetic justice.
We can only thank the conductor for bringing this work forward; the performance was ideal,' says one of the critics in his notice of the oratorio.
In the early part of the century a young Scotchman named Carlyle laid before the greatest of English scholars and critics a manuscript entitled Sartor Resartus.
Says one of the greatest critics ever born in America, in speaking of the humble birth of Franklin: That little baby, humbly cradled, has turned out to be the greatest man that America ever bore in her bosom or set eyes upon.
As a matter of fact, however, few even among friendly critics longer regarded these faults as entirely eliminable.
He grinds divinity of other days Down into modern use; transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
Minister must give way; but with some difficulty he convinced his critics that the clause in question had nothing to do with seaside landladies.
But I am told that the secret of the present attitude of our French critics is that they cannot forgive us for having used the soil of France in order to defend our own.
The old man has signed it "Titianus, fecit, fecit," a contemptuous reply to some critics who complained of its want of finish.
Certain works remain to link the two painters; even now critics are divided as to which of the two to attribute the "Concert" in the Pitti.
Most of the nineteenth-century critics do not even mention him.
This is a consideration which some of my critics have lost sight of in a degree which surprises me.
His eye was ever fixed upon the gay company of the "boxes," occasionally only glancing apprehensively aside from its flattering homage to scan the faces of the sour critics of the pit.
When the critics of Dickens meet at the inn there will be none more worthy of a place close to the Master Writer than Chesterton.
On the night of November 7th the critics might have been seen making their way along John Street with just the faintest suspicion of mirth in their eyes.
Critics have said that Browning's poetry lacks passion and the most poignant emotion of human nature, love.
Many critics have disliked Dickens because of this tendency of universalism, a tendency liable to intrude on minds of a giant intellect and a ready sympathy.
The essential man is the same, but his three critics make really a different person, or, at least, each sees him from a different angle.
As a matter of fact, it is infinite; it cannot be bound up with any particular mode of expression; it is elastic, and so elastic that certain critics cannot adjust their minds to such lucidity.
Chesterton does not agree with the critics on these points, but admits that these charges have been levelled against Dickens.
He feels that in some ways thecritics want Browning to be poet and logician, and are rather cross when he is either.
There have been critics who have denied to this work the right of immortality.
The theory, on the other hand, held by other critics of Browning than Chesterton was that his dislike of spiritualism was fostered by a direct disbelief in immortality, which is as absurd a statement as is possible to make.
That truth is no existence might also be proved as follows: Suppose that nothing existed or (if critics carp at that phrase), that a universe did not exist.
Clearer upon this question of perception is the position of Berkeley; we may therefore take him as a fair representative of those critics who seek to invalidate the discovery of material objects.
Has it, critics should ask, the affinities needed for such intercourse?
Critics quarrel with other critics, and that is a part of philosophy.
Critics are in this way always one stage behind or beyond the artist; their operation is reflective and his is direct.
Nevertheless, critics must view his momentary ebullition from another side.
The point is, that because a thing is unusual or interesting it is not necessarily false, as my dogmatic critics would have you believe.
The critics have been denouncing it so heartily that the publisher has difficulty in keeping pace with the demand.
That's the sort of stuff to make the critics sit up.
Numerous critics have declared it Strindberg's greatest play, and there is much in the work to warrant such a judgment.
He has been welcomed by British critics with something like affection.
Literary judgments must be comparative, and now we may place each epic in direct comparison with any other, with a resultant light, both diffused and concentrated, for the benefit of both critics and the general reader.
Some critics also claim as an example of the domestic epic his "Enoch Arden.
It caused the criticsto prophesy for this sculptor the future that is developing.
There is a vague tendency voiced by some critics to advance the theory that the real future democracy of art depends on the verdict of the man in the street.
As a practical modern phrase I do not commend it; if my private critics and correspondents in whom I delight should happen to address me "G.
Now the mistake of critics is not that they criticise the world; it is that they never criticise themselves.
It is a somewhat deeper difference that I mean; and it may possibly be what these critics mean.
Its critics in these days of criticism may regard it as a corrupt civilisation.
Of the city as a city I shall try to say something elsewhere; but the things which these critics have especially in mind are at once more general and more internal.
It is exactly as if twenty clever critics were set down to talk for a month about the play of Macbeth, and were all strictly forbidden to mention the word "murder.
So I reasoned, striving with wild critics in the wilderness; but the only part of the debate which is relevant here can be expressed in the statement that I do think the Pyramid big, for the deep and simple reason that it is bigger than I am.
For in fact the insensibility is in the critics and not the artists.
There may have been different theories among the Crusaders; there are certainly different theories among the critics of the Crusaders.
Let the critics try to conjure with any of the other names.
And I never could understand why such critics who agree that the kingdom of heaven is for children, should forbid it to be the only sort of kingdom that children would really like; a kingdom with real crowns of gold or even of tinsel.
Nevertheless, the far different opinion of his standing as a metaphysician which his critics entertain is undoubtedly more correct, though in a sense which was not so clearly apparent to him.
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