 His language deserves a commendation sometimes bestowed by ladies upon rich garments, that it is capable of standing up by itself. The form is so admirable that, for purposes of criticism, we must consider it as something apart from the substance. The...  The Fortnightly - Seite 3111871Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1892 - 212 Seiten
...sneering maxim of prudence, and boldly challenges our admiration by appearing in the richest coloring that can be got out of the dictionary. His language...sentences, they harmonize with certain phases of emotion. It is in the success with which he produces such effects as these that De Quincey may fairly claim... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1892 - 188 Seiten
...sneering maxim of prudence, and boldly challenges our admiration by appearing in the richest coloring that can be got out of the dictionary. His language...sentences, they harmonize with certain phases of emotion. It is in the success with which he produces such effects as these that De Quincey may fairly claim... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1893 - 294 Seiten
...language, a constructive whole of a musical order. " The more exquisite passages," says Leslie Stephen, "are intended to be musical compositions, in which words have to play the part of notes." He seems to have composed in much the same way as did Mozart, who said that pieces gradually got finished... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1896 - 100 Seiten
...sneering maxim of prudence, and boldly challenges our admiration by appearing in the richest coloring that can be got out of the dictionary. His language...sentences, they harmonize with certain phases of emotion. It is in the success with which he produces such effects as these that De Quincey may fairly claim... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1900 - 294 Seiten
...best, according to modern canons of taste, which attracts least attention from its wearer. De Quiucey scorns this sneaking maxim of prudence, and boldly...the structure and combination of the sentences, they harmonise with certain phases of emotion." 1 De Qnincey has divided literature into two classes: the... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1900 - 264 Seiten
...the best, according to modern canons of taste, which attracts least attention from its wearer. I)e Quincey scorns this sneaking maxim of prudence, and...from the structure and combination of the sentences, th»y harmonise with certain phases of emotion." l De Quincey has divided literature into two classes... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1904 - 404 Seiten
...consider it as something apart from the substance. The most exquisite passages in De Quincey's writing are all more or less attempts to carry out the idea...the structure and combination of the sentences, they harmonise with certain phases of emotion. Briefly, De Quincey is doing in prose what every great poet... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1906 - 206 Seiten
...sneering maxim of prudence, and boldly challenges our admiration by appearing in the richest coloring that can be got out of the dictionary. His language...sentences, they harmonize with certain phases of emotion. It is in the success with which he produces such effects as these that De Quincey may fairly claim... | |
 | Irving Babbitt - 1910 - 288 Seiten
...writing are all more or less attempts to carry out the idea expressed in the title of the dream-fugue. They are intended to be musical compositions, in which words have to play the part of notes." Other writers of prose might be mentioned who are poetical by their intense pictorial suggestiveness.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1893 - 292 Seiten
...language, a constructive whole of a musical order. " The more exquisite passages," says Leslie Stephen, "are intended to be musical compositions, in which words have to play the part of notes." He seems to have composed in much the same way as did Mozart, who said that pieces gradually got finished... | |
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