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" Literature consists of all the books — and they are not so many — where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form. "
Aspects of Modern Study: Being University Extension Addresses - Page 74
by Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - 1894 - 187 pages
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 69

1892 - 880 pages
...scholars are in the main agreed. They would hardly quarrel with a recent writer who says that it " consists of all the books — and they are not so...— where moral truth and human passion are touched by a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." Shelley's description of poetry, as " the...
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The Bookmart, Volume 4

Richard Halkett - 1887 - 588 pages
...going to deal with another question with which I ought to have started. That is, what is literature? Literature consists of all the books— and they are...certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form; and my notion of the literary student is one who through books explores the strange voyages of man's...
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Book News, Volume 5

1887 - 380 pages
...going to deal with another question with which I ought to have started. That is, what is literature ? Literature consists of all the books — and they...certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form ; and my notion of the literary student is one who through books explores the strange voyages of man's...
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 18

1888 - 694 pages
...out of caprichio, passion, or fancy, that you command or forbid them anything. — John Locke. — " Literature consists of all the books (and they are...human passion are touched with a certain largeness, variety, and attraction of form; and my notion of the literary student is one who, through books, explores...
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The Educational Journal of Virginia, Volumes 19-20

Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1888 - 1260 pages
...printing of succeeding ages — that is literature. — Rev. Dr. Deems. . LITERATURE consists of all books (and they are not so many) where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certs in largeness, variety, and attraction of form ; and ny notion of the literary student is one...
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The Principles of Success in Literature

George Henry Lewes - 1891 - 182 pages
...the reader." (Brooke, 'English Literature,' p. 5.) — "Literature consists of all the books . . . where moral truth and human passion are touched with...certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." (J. Morley, ' On the Study of Literature,' pp. 39-40.) — "All knowledge that reaches us through books...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 6

1898 - 560 pages
...a good man. Mr. John Morley also gives the same idea in a slightly different form when he says that "literature consists of all the books — and they...human passion are touched with a certain largeness, severity, and attractiveness of form." But have we not passed from too large a definition of our term...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 3

1895 - 682 pages
...dictionaries suggest, that of John Morley affords our best point of departure. " Literature," he says, " consists of all the books — and they are not so...human passion are touched with a certain largeness, severity, and attractiveness of form." But this definition, apart from its descriptive nature, seems...
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Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign ...

Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...the very chance of chances. //. Gilts. Literature consists of all the books —and they 40 are not many— where moral truth and human passion are touched...certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form. John ¿forley. Literature draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting...
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Literary News, Volume 15

1894 - 456 pages
...THE BOOKS OF 1893 WILL BECOME LITERATURE? " Literature consists of all the books — and they are not many— where moral truth and human passion are touched...certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form." — JOHS MOIÜ.EY. DURING the year 1893 the official organ of the book trade, Th¿ Puklis/ifrs' Wc¿kly,...
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