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" I have said, simply to know the best that is known and thought in the world, and by in its turn making this known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas. "
Talks on Writing English: Second series - Page 43
by Arlo Bates - 1901 - 259 pages
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 23

American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1888 - 436 pages
...knowledge, theology, philosophy, history, art, science, to see the object as iu itself it really is ; " •- to know the best that is known and thought in the...known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas," — this was Arnold's definition of the nature and business of criticism. It was a new and fruitful...
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 23

American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1888 - 426 pages
...knowledge, theology, philosophy, history, art, science, to see the object as in itself it really is ; " " to know the best that is known and thought in the...known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas," — this was Arnold's definition of the nature and business of criticism. It was a new and fruitful...
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The National Review, Volume 19

Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1864 - 446 pages
...certain to be attached to them quite sufficiently, but which criticism has really nothing to do with. Its business is, as I have said, simply to know the...known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas. Its business is to do this with inflexible honesty, with due ability ; but its business is to do no...
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The Congregational Review, Volume 5

1865 - 652 pages
...themselves. He gives in one word, — " disinterestedness" — the rule of criticism. " Its business is .... simply to know the best that is known and thought...known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas." p. 17. Again: " I wish to decide nothing as of my own authority ; the great art of criticism is to...
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The North American Review, Volume 101

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 686 pages
...with. Its business is simply to know the best that is known and thought in tbe world, and, by in ita turn making this known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas. Ita business is to do this with VOL. CI. — NO. 208. 14 inflexible honesty, with due ability ; but...
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The history of English literature; with an outline of the origin and growth ...

William Spalding - 1870 - 482 pages
...he maintains to be " the free play of the mind on all the subjects which it touches. Its business is simply to know the best that is known and thought...known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas." The charge of want of definiteness and system in exposition brought against Mr Arnold is not true of...
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The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth ...

William Spalding - 1872 - 482 pages
...he maintains to be " the free play of the mind on all the subjects which it touches. Its business is simply to know the best that is known and thought...known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas." The charge of want of definiteness and system in exposition brought against Mr Arnold is not true of...
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Essays in Criticism

Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 468 pages
...certain to be attached to them quite sufficiently, but which criticism has really nothing to do with. Its business is, as I have said, simply to know the...known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas. Its business is to do this with inflexible honesty, with due ability ; but its business is to do no...
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The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review, Volume 31

1877 - 750 pages
...the interpreters. His sympathies, on his own showing, are with the criticism whose business it is " simply to know the best that is known and thought...known, to create a current of true and fresh ideas." It is in accordance with this spirit that the author is able, in his " Essays in Criticism," to make...
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44 vols. of newspaper cuttings and 1 ..., Part 29, Volume 7 - Part 30, Volume 7

Spenser Wilkinson - 1880 - 136 pages
...the definition of criticism which was given many years ago by Matthew Arnold : that its business Is simply to know the best that is known and thought...known to create a current of true and fresh ideas. The British Army has suffered in the past, and perhaps suffers even to-day, from the fact that English...
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