 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1860 - 428 páginas
...other men. I shall not find out when I have used up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left ! Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the... | |
 | 1861 - 674 páginas
...creation is past, criticism. Philosophy, indeed, is the critique of religion. Both are engaged on the Elsie Venner; a Romance of Destiny. By Oliver Wendell...the one, it will be so also in the other. They are homoousian, to adopt a theological word. When criticism is at a low ebb, in any community that has... | |
 | 1861 - 516 páginas
...scarcely a substantive existence: it passes before us "going to be created." Its best works are scarcelv more than a promise of excellence, the precursors...the one, it will be so also in the other. They are homoousian, to adopt a theological word. When criticism is at a low ebb, in any community that has... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 804 páginas
...other men. I shall not find out when I have nsed up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the probabilities... | |
 | 1874 - 800 páginas
...other men. I shall not find out when I have used up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left ! Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 páginas
...other men. I shall not find out when I have used up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the probabilities... | |
 | 1874 - 810 páginas
...men. I shall not find out when I have used up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is that Xature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the probabilities... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 452 páginas
...other men. I shall not find out when I have used up my affinities. What a blessed thing it is that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the probabilities... | |
 | Edward Whitaker (novelist.) - 1876 - 318 páginas
...any fatty margin remained to it. CHAPTER XX. THE REVIEWERS REVIEWED. What a blessed thing it is that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. THEY who live by intrigue must be content to live from hand to mouth. Plots... | |
 | Henry James Jennings - 1881 - 214 páginas
...—irresponsible, indolent reviewers." And Oliver Wendell Holmes declares it to be " a blessed thing that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented...to make critics out of the chips that were left." Even any one, unfamiliar with the circumstances under which some of these bitter things were written,... | |
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left... 
