 There is, first, the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is to teach ; the function of the second is to move ; the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive...  Studies in Literature and Style - Page 58by Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 297 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Masson - 1885 - 218 pages
...LlTEEATUEE OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE LITERATURE OF POWER. In that great social organ which, collectively,we call Literature, there may be distinguished two separate offices that may blend and often do so, hut capable, severally, of a severe insulation, and naturally fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 pages
...Quincey's critical writings are not so generally read as they should be, we may quote part of his remarks. "In that great social organ, which collectively we...; the function of the second is to move. The first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the... | |
 | Frances E. Finch, Frank James Sibley - 1888 - 600 pages
...then on ! where duty leads, My course be onward still." CHAPTER XI. TEMPERANCE LITERATURE. There ia, first, the literature of knowledge ; and secondly,...the function of the second is to move ; the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The lir.st speaks to the mere discursive understanding ;... | |
 | 1888 - 870 pages
...broad distinction between " the literature of knowledge and the literature of power" asserting that the function of the first is to teach, the function of the second to move, — maintaining that the meanest of authors who moves has pre-eminence over all who merely... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1889 - 636 pages
...critical writings are not so generally read as they should be, we may quote part of his remarks. " In that great social organ, which collectively we...literature of knowledge, and secondly the literature of poiver. The function of the first is to teach ; the function of the second is to move. The first is... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...Carlyle: Essays. Memoirs of the Life of Scott. (London and Westminster ftetiew, Nos. xii. and lv., 1838.) There is, first, the literature of knowledge, and...teach, the function of the second is to move; the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding, the... | |
 | 1889 - 934 pages
...MACAULAY -Ki.iiiy <m Mitford's History of Greece. There, is first, the literature of knowledge; «nd, secondly, the literature of power. The function of...the function of the second is, to move; the first is a rndder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1889 - 906 pages
...bear in mind the well-known distinction made by De Quincey between the literature of knowledge and the literature of power. The function of the first...the function of the second is to move : the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. If we were to embark on a voyage, we should find that both... | |
 | 1890 - 918 pages
...broad distinction between " the literature of laiowledge and the literature of power", asserting that the function of the first is to teach, the function of the second to move, — maintaining that the meanest of authors who moves has pre-eminence over all who merely... | |
 | William Minto - 1892 - 582 pages
...distinction between the literature of knowledge and the literature of power — " In that great social orf;an which, collectively, we call literature, there may...reciprocal repulsion. There is. first, the literature of kmiwlcdge ; and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is to leach; the function... | |
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