 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1864 - 446 стор.
...In general its course is determined for it by the idea which is the law of its being ; the idea of a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, and thus to establish a current of fresh and true ideas. By the very nature of things,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1865 - 334 стор.
...for I am afraid I must disappoint these expectations. I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. How much of current English literature comes into this " best that is known and thought... | |
 | 1865 - 538 стор.
...for I am afraid I must disappoint these expectations. I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. How much of current English literature comes into this ' best that is known and thought... | |
 | 1865 - 582 стор.
...Essays in Criticism" he has called his book ; and within its pages he has defined criticism as " the disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." Such an endeavour he has made, and the result is before us. The contents of the volume... | |
 | 1866 - 604 стор.
...half his work. He has indeed understood — that is the critic's first duty — but he has not judyed, which is a duty equally imperative. For the sake of...worthy of serious attention. Definite, or at any rate * ' Essays in Criticism,' by Matthew Arnold. Macmillan and Co. 1805. exclusive exclusive conclusions,... | |
 | 1866 - 582 стор.
...system faulty ; in other words, to show that he has properly considered the case and decided it, at anv rate, to his own satisfaction. Now, the question whether...he considers to be specially abhorrent to the true critie-nature; things which Pltilistines alone—whoever they may happen to be— can deem worthy of... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 534 стор.
...essays are perfectly consistent with that early preface. He rests on this definition of criticism : ' a ' disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is ' known and thought in the world.' The critic, in his opinion, is not a judge merely, but also an instructor. And, maintaining... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 468 стор.
...in general, its course is determined for it by the idea which is the law of-its being ; the idea of a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, and thus to establish a current of fresh and true ideas. By the' very nature of things,... | |
 | 1892 - 550 стор.
...may think of The Cloud of Witness, they cannot fail to recognize in it what Matthew Arnold called ' a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.' We have only to add that the book itself is daintily bound and beautifully printed,... | |
 | 1878 - 520 стор.
...prejudice, as it has been represented either in the Edinburgh or in the Quarterly Review, but " the disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." Real criticism, he says, is essentially the exercise of "curiosity as to ideas and all... | |
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... a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, and thus to establish a current of fresh and true ideas. 
