“ A man unimpressible and incapable of moods and tenses, is for that reason an incompetent critic ”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854). copy citation
| Author | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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| Source | Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands |
| Topic | mood critics |
| Date | 1854 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6931/pg6931-images.html |
Context
“Whoever looks on these pictures, or reads the Lotus Eaters or Castle of Indolence, at a time when soul and body are weary, and longing for retirement and rest, will receive an impression from them such as could never be made on the strong nerves of our more healthful and hilarious seasons.
Certainly no emotions so rigidly reject critical restraints, and disdain to be bound by rule, as those excited by the fine arts. A man unimpressible and incapable of moods and tenses, is for that reason an incompetent critic; and the sensitive, excitable man, how can he know that he does not impose his peculiar mood as a general rule?
From the state rooms we were taken to the top of the Hound Tower, where we gained a magnificent view of the Park of Windsor, with its regal avenue, miles in length, of ancient oaks;”
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