 | Matthew Arnold - Critics - 1900 - 942 pages
...tried to read a grammar, even a novel, found myself too feverish, and actually went to bed at 10^, slept like a top till 9£, and am better to-day, so...attention to the comparative literatures for the last fit' ty yftars might have instructed any one of it, that England is in a certain sense far behind the... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - 1904 - 552 pages
...he was to attempt the thankless mission of the transformer. " How plain it is now," he writes, ' ' though an attention to the comparative literatures...ventilated on the Continent, — not because they have j udged them or seen beyond them, but from sheer habitual want of wide reading and thinking. I am not... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - Great Britain - 1904 - 470 pages
...that he was to attempt the thankless mission of the transformer. " How plain it is now," he writes, "though an attention to the comparative literatures...ventilated on the Continent, — not because they have j udged them or seen beyond them, but from sheer habitual want of wide reading and thinking. I am not... | |
 | Elinor S. Shaffer, Elinor Shaffer - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 364 pages
...to impede the recognition of foreign literature. As Matthew Arnold wrote to his sister in May 1848: 'How plain it is now, though an attention to the comparative...literatures for the last fifty years might have instructed anyone of it, that England is in a certain sense far behind the continent.' Arnold, with his immersion... | |
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How plain it is now, though an attention to the comparative literatures for the last fifty years might have instructed any one of it, that England is in a certain sense far behind the Continent. 