 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Bible - 1895 - 352 pages
...a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding ; t'le second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher...always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. Kemotely, it may travel towards an object seated in what Lord Bacon calls dry light; but proximately... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 850 pages
...readily divide themselves into two great classes. "There is, first," in the language of DeQuincey, "the literature of knowledge, and, secondly, the literature of power. The function of the farst is to teach ; the function of the second is to move : the first is a rudder, the second an oar... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. /. MACAULAY — On Sir William Temple. n. L. 27. I chatter, chatter as I flow To join the...Stirling Castle we had seen The mazy Forth unravelled ; g. THOMAS DE QCINCEY— Essays on the Poets. Alexander Pope. We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - Elocution - 1896 - 388 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 proximately... | |
 | Edwin Herbert Lewis - English language - 1897 - 320 pages
...higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. — DE QUINCEY. There is, first, the literature of knowledge. And,...always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. From a study of the foregoing selections, it becomes clear that the sentence is not its own master.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 490 pages
...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 1 Charles I., for example,... | |
 | John Scott Clark - American literature - 1898 - 910 pages
...so, but capable, severally, of a severe insulation, and naturally fitted for reciprocal repulsion. The function of the first is to teach ; the function...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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...distinction in literature — one that is readily applicable to his own writings. "There is first," he says, "the literature of knowledge, and, secondly, the literature...higher understanding or reason, but always through the affections of pleasure and sympathy." To this latter kind of literature belong those works of De... | |
 | Education - 1899 - 726 pages
...mere knowledge, and with regard to its object there are two kinds of literature, as De Quincey says, "There is, first, the literature of knowledge; and...second, an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding,... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1899 - 628 pages
...his characteristic way of addressing us. This style is the expression of his personal characsecondly, the literature of power. The function of the first...The first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. Tho first speaks to the mere discursive understanding ; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen,... | |
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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... 
