The object of authors will be to astonish rather than to please, and to stir the passions more than to charm the taste. Here and there, indeed, writers will doubtless occur who will choose a different track, and who will, if they are gifted with superior... Democracy in America - Pągina 115per Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1840 - 748 pągines
...common than bulky books ; there will be more wit than erudition, more imagination than profundity ; the object of authors will be to astonish rather than...please, and to stir the passions more than to charm th<; ta*te. Its further effects may be learned from his observations on the sources of poetry amongst... | |
| William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 342 pągines
...imagination than profundity ; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored and rude vigor of thought — , frequently of great variety and singular...than to please, and to stir the passions more than to eharm the taste." Without entering into the question, at present, of what may be yet expected from... | |
| William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 256 pągines
...imagination than profundity ; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored and rude vigor of thought — frequently of great variety and singular...will be to astonish rather than to please, and to »tir the passions more than to charm the taste." Without entering into the question, at present, of... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 pągines
...vehement and bold. Authors • will aim at rapidity of execution, more than at perfection of detriii Small productions will be more common than bulky books...their defects or their better qualities ; but these exceptions will be rare, and even the authors who shall so depart from the received practice in the... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1855 - 922 pągines
...enough to rouse them up, and to plunge them at once, as if by violence, into the midst of a subject. 61 will aim at rapidity of execution, more than at perfection...their defects or their better qualities ; but these exceptions will be rare, and even the authors who shall so depart from the received practice in the... | |
| William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 280 pągines
...profundity; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored and rude vigor of thought—frequently of great variety and singular fecundity. The object...to stir the passions more than to charm the taste." Without entering into the question, at present, of what may be yet expected from America, or even of... | |
| Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 pągines
...enough to rouse them up, and to plunge them at once, as if by violence, into the midst of a subject. Why should I say more ? or who does not understand...their defects or their better qualities ; but these exceptions will be rare, and even the authors who shall so depart from the received practice in the... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1862 - 526 pągines
...imagination than profundity ; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored and rude vigor of thought, — frequently of great variety and singular...their defects or their better qualities ; but these exceptions will be rare ; and even the authors who shall so depart from the received practice in the... | |
| Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 454 pągines
...imagination than profundity ; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored and rude vigor of thought — frequently of great variety and singular...their defects or their better qualities ; but these exceptions will be rare, and even the authors who shall so depart from the received practice in the... | |
| David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 578 pągines
...imagination than profundity; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored and rude vigor of thought — frequently of great variety and singular...their defects or their better qualities; but these exceptions will be rare, and even the authors who shall so depart from the received practice in the... | |
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