The same qualities which will be found forbidding to the world and the thoughtless, which will be found insipid to many even amongst robust and powerful minds, are exactly those which will continue to command a select audience in every generation. The... Biographical Essays - Page 165by Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
| English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...class here contemplated ; he, if any ever has, ranks amongst writers whose works are destined to bo for ever unpopular, and yet for ever interesting;...and unobtrusive to catch the ear of the noisy crowd, clamouring for strong sensations. But this retiring delicacy itself, the pensiveness chequered by gleams... | |
| 1849 - 588 pages
...audience in every generation. The prose essays under the signature of Ella form the most delightftl section amongst Lamb's works. They traverse a peculiar...sensations. But this retiring delicacy itself, the pensivencss chequered by gleams of the fanciful, and the humor that is touched with cross-lights of... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 684 pages
...the essays of Elia traverse a " peculiar field of observation sequestered from general interest;" and are composed in a " spirit too delicate and unobtrusive to catch the ear of the noisy crowd, clamouring for strong sensations." In this quality, however, lies the charm they present to the fit... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1856 - 686 pages
...the essays of Elia traverse a " peculiar field of observation sequestered from general interest;" and are composed in a " spirit too delicate and unobtrusive to catch the ear of the noisy crowd, clamouring for strong sensations." In this quality, however, lies the charm they present to the fit... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 366 pages
...which guarantee their non-popularity. The same qualities which will be found forbidding to the world and the thoughtless, which will be found insipid to...delightful section amongst Lamb's works. They traverse a pecuused in Scripture than elsewhere, but is BO exclusively significant or intelligible amidst the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 368 pages
...which guarantee their non-popularity. The same qualities which will be found forbidding to the world and the thoughtless, which will be found insipid to...delightful section amongst Lamb's works. They traverse a pecuused in Scripture than elsewhere, but is so exclusively significant or intelligible amidst the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - English literature - 1862 - 364 pages
...Scripture, as to be absolutely insusceptible of tranelat'on into clasnical Greek or classical liar field of observation, sequestered from general interest;...and unobtrusive to catch the ear of the noisy crowd, clamouring for strong sensations. But this retiring delicacy itself, the pensiveness chequered by gleams... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 352 pages
...which guarantee their non-popularity. The same qualities which will be found forbidding to the world and the thoughtless, which will be found insipid to...delightful section amongst Lamb's works. They traverse a pecunsed in Scripture than elsewhere, but is BO exclusively significant or intelligible amidst the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 362 pages
...which guarantee their non-popularity. The same qualities which will be found forbidding to the world and the thoughtless, which will be found insipid to...delightful section amongst Lamb's works. They traverse a pecunsed in Scripture than elsewhere, but is so exclusively significant or intelligible amidst the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 358 pages
...Scripture, as to be absolutely insusceptible of translation into classical Greek or classical Latin. liar field of observation, sequestered from general interest...and unobtrusive to catch the ear of the noisy crowd, clamouring for strong sensations. But this rejiringjlelicacy, itself, the pensiveness chequered by... | |
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