 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...in literature — 'one that is readily applicable to his own writings. " There is first," he says, " the literature of knowledge, and, secondly, the literature...the function of the second is to move : the first is ?. rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1905 - 924 pages
...capable, severally, of a severe insuktion, and naturally fitted for reciprocal repulsion. The function °f the first is to teach ; the function of the second...first is a rudder ; the second, an oar or a sail." — Essays. "Wine unsettles and clouds the judgment, and gives a preternatural brightness and a vivid... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 pages
...so, but capable, severally, of a severe insulation, and naturally 5 fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There is, first, the literature of knowledge, and,...secondly, the literature of power. The function of thg__fixsij_s_to teach; the function of the second is to move: the first is a "Judder; the second,... | |
 | 1906 - 888 pages
...distinction between the literature of knowledge and the literature of power recurs to our mind : " The function of the first is to teach, the function...the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. . . . Remotely it may travel towards an object seated in what Lord Bacon calls dry light, but proximately... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1893 - 292 pages
...do so, but capable severally of a severe insulation, and naturally fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There is, first, the literature of knowledge, and...always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. Remotely, it may travel towards an object seated in what Lord Bacon calls dry light; but proximattly... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1970 - 372 pages
...statement of Wordsworth's position is found in De Quincey's Essay on Pope: 'There is', says De Quincey, 'first the literature of knowledge; and secondly the...literature of power. The function of the first is to teach ; of the second is to move. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 pages
...antithesis between the literature of knowledge and that of power on the relation of utterance to hearer: 'The function of the first is — to teach; the function...first is a rudder; the second, an oar or a sail.' ** In his essay on 'Style,' however, De Quincey substituted for this distinction the German antkhesis... | |
 | David Daiches - 1969 - 356 pages
...distinction between the kind of literature which "speaks to the mere discursive understanding" and that which "speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding...always through affections of pleasure and sympathy." "What do you learn from Paradise Lost? Nothing at all. What do you learn from a cookery book? Something... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1987 - 320 pages
...so, but capable, severally, of a severe insulation, and naturally fitted for reciprocal repulsion. There is, first, the literature of knowledge; and,...reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.2 Remotely, it 174 may travel towards an object seated in what Lord Bacon calls dry light,3... | |
 | Sangharakshita (Bhikshu), Sangharakshita - 1993 - 248 pages
...made by De Quincey will be useful here. According to De Quincey, there are two kinds of literature. 'There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the former is — to teach; the function of the second is — to move; the first is a rudder, the second... | |
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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... 
