Word: critical
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Zangwill justified in calling Mr. Stevenson's Ebb-Tide a "masterpiece"? (See Critic, Nov. 24, 1894, p.343...
...Lessing a critic or a poet...
order and proportion. Ben Jonson, who if not in all respects a great poet, was certainly a very good critic, said of Donne that he was the most truly a poet of any man in that time (a time that included Shakespeare), but that he would perish for want of being understood,- a remark which time has fully justified, and which I never could help sorrowfully applying to a writer of our own day, Mr. Browning. Style is that expression of a just thought in prose, or of a thought infused with imaginative passion in poetry, which is precisely adequate...
...Iron Duke of Wellington who represents legal and just power, making head against lawlessness in the person of Napoleon. For this reason perhaps Tennyson has given us less of music and art, because it is the custom of the artist to follow his own bent and let the critic supply the laws...
...productions of the Germans also, or in the productions of the Italians; but there will be a stamp of perfectness and inimitableness about it in the literatures where it is native, which it will not have in the literatures where it not native. A rough-and-ready critic easily credits the Germans with the Celtic fineness of tact, the Celtic nearness to Nature and her secret; but do the strokes in the German's picture of nature ever have the indefinable delicacy of charm, and perfection of the Celt's touch...