 | 1880 - 402 pages
...sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us...thus we get the source of a second fallacy in our poetic judgments —the fallacy caused by an estimate which we may call personal. Both fallacies are... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us...thus we get the source of a second fallacy in our poetic judgments, — the fallacy caused by an estimate which we may call personal. Both fallacies... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us...thus we get the source of a second fallacy in our poetic judgments, — the fallacy caused by an estimate which we may call personal. Both fallacies... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 400 pages
...sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us...thus we get the source of a second fallacy in our poetic judgments —the fallacy caused by an estimate which we may call personal. Both fallacies are... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us...thus we get the source of a second fallacy in our poetic judgments, — the fallacy caused by an estimate which we may call personal. Both fallacies... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 626 pages
...sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us...thus we get the source of a second fallacy in our poetic judgments, — the fallacy caused by an estimate which we may call personal. Both fallacies... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1888 - 364 pages
...sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us it is, or has been, of high importance. Here a] so we over-rate the object of our interest, and apply to it a language of praise which is quite... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1892 - 272 pages
...sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us...thus we get the source of a second fallacy in our poetic judgments} — the fallacy caused by an estimate which we may 6all personal. Both fallacies"... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 650 pages
...sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us...thus we get the source of a second fallacy in our poetic judgments, — the fallacy caused by an estimate which we may call personal. Both fallacies... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1895 - 652 pages
...sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry than in itself it really possesses, because to us...thus we get the source of a second fallacy in our poetic judgments,— the fallacy caused by an estimate which we may call personal. Both fallacies are... | |
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Then, again, a poet or a poem may count to us on grounds personal to ourselves. Our personal affinities, likings, and circumstances, have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet's work, and to make us attach more importance to it as poetry... 
