Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century

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Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century

Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century

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Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century

€6,19
Author: Morley, John,1838-1923
Format: eBook
Language: English

Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century

The announcement that one of the most ingenious and accomplished men of letters in Europe was engaged upon a history of the French Revolution, raised some doubts among those who have thought most about the qualifications proper to the historian. M. Taine has the quality of the best type of a man of letters; he has the fine critical aptitude for seizing the secret of an author's or an artist's manner, for penetrating to dominant and central ideas, for marking the abstract and general under accidental forms in which they are concealed, for connecting the achievements of literature and art with facts of society and impulses of human character and life. He is the master of a style which, if it seems to lack the breadth, the firmness, the sustained and level strength of great writing, is yet always energetic, and fresh, and alive with that spontaneous reality and independence of interest which distinguishes the genuine writer from the mere weaver of sentences and the servile mechanic of the [Pg 262] pen. The matter and form alike of M. Taine's best workand we say best, for his work is by no means without degrees and inequalities of worthprove that he has not shrunk from the toil and austerity of the student, from that scorn of delight and living of laborious days, by which only can men either get command of the art of just and finished expression, or gather to themselves much knowledge. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 19410
Author: Morley, John
Release Date: Sep 30, 2006
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Language: English

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