 Quincey's method) into two classes, — the literature of knowledge, and the literature of power. The first class contains the handbooks on rods and tackle, the directions how to angle for different kinds of fish, and the guides to various fishingresorts....  The Works of Henry Van Dyke - Sida 139efter Henry Van Dyke - 1920Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1867 - 660 sidor
...and a cistern which contains no more than what has been poured into it. De Quincy divides literature into two classes; the literature of knowledge and 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... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 sidor
...logic, conviction, — of grammar, signiflcancy. • — CoLEnrooE. DC Quincey divide* all literature into two classes— the literature of knowledge and the literature of power. The function of the first U to teach ; the function of the second is to move. For the beat definition which... | |
 | 1894 - 808 sidor
...was also indirectly a contributor to their own literature, Thomas de Quincey, had divided literature into two classes — the literature of knowledge and the literature of power, the one appealing to the understanding, and the other to the aesthetic emotions. Their own literature was... | |
 | 1894 - 806 sidor
...was also indirectly a contributor to their own literature, Thomas de Quincey, had divided literature into two classes — the literature of knowledge and the literature of power, the one appealing to the understanding, and the other to the testhetic emotions. Their own literature was... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1899 - 294 sidor
...Nor is this literature altogether composed of dry and technical treatises, interesting only to 134 the confirmed anglimaniac, or to the young novice...contains the handbooks on rods and tackle, the directions bow to angle for different kinds of fish, and the guides to various fishing-resorts. The weakness of... | |
 | 1899 - 578 sidor
...characterization of his work than his own words. In his essay on "Fishing in Books" he classifies books on angling into two classes — the literature of knowledge, and the literature of power. In the first class he puts guide-books and instructions in fishing. The second class, to which I assign... | |
 | 1899 - 582 sidor
...of his work than his own words. In his essay on "Fishing in Books " he classifies books on angling into two classes — the literature of knowledge, and the literature of power. In the first class he puts guide-books and instructions in fishing. The second class, to which I assign... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1900 - 294 sidor
...the sentences, they harmonise with certain phases of emotion." 1 De Qnincey has divided literature into two classes: the literature of knowledge and the literature of power. It is to this latter class that his own writings belong; and they belong to it, not because they show... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1901 - 294 sidor
...a quiet tune." Walton has been quoted even more than any of the writers whom he quotes. It would be difficult, even if it were not ungrateful, to write...contains the handbooks on rods and tackle, the directions bow to angle for different kinds of fish, and the guides to various fishing-resorts. The weakness of... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1905 - 326 sidor
...library of Mr. Dean Sage, of Albany, who himself has contributed an admirable book on The Ristlgouche. Nor is this literature altogether composed of dry...these books is that they soon fall out of date, as the manufacture of tackle is improved, the art of angling refined, and the fish in once-famous waters are... | |
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