...completely equipped — armed cap-d.pie in curiosity and sympathy — one falls in love with the apparition. It certainly represents the knight who has knelt through...perception at the pitch of passion and expression as embracing as the air, to be infinitely curious and incorrigibly patient, and yet plastic and inflammable...

...completely equipped—armed eap-iLfie in curiosity and sympathy—one falls in love with the apparition. It certainly represents the knight who has knelt through...perception at the pitch of passion and expression as embracing as the air, to be infinitely curious and incorrigibly patient, and yet plastic and inflammable...

...the greater pleasure to quote from the same essay his description of what the critic should be : " There is something sacrificial in his function, inasmuch...project himself and steep himself, to feel and feel until he understands, and to understand so well that he can say, to have perception at the pitch of...

...characterizes : It is " to lend himself, to project himself and steep himself, to feel and feel until he understands, and to understand so well that he...the intensely fixed idea of turning character and history and genius inside out." An interesting comparison is made between critic and novelist. The...

...to consider the function, or ' programme,' of the good critic, which he thus characterizes : It is " to lend himself, to project himself and steep himself, to feel and feel until he understands, and to understand so well that he can say, to have perception at the pitch of...

..." Criticism " in Mr. Henry James's " Essays in London and Elsewhere." "To lend himself," he writes, "to project himself and steep himself, to feel and...perception at the pitch of passion and expression as embracing as the air, to be infinitely curious and incorrigibly patient, and yet plastic and inflammable...

...standard for the critic, who is serving the general cause of right thinking, and who, if he be worthy, represents "the knight who has knelt through his long...project himself, and steep himself, to feel and feel until he understands, and to understand so well that he can say, to have perception at the pitch of...

...interest in appreciation and expressionism. He set forth his theory in his essay entitled "Criticism": "To lend himself, to project himself and steep himself, to feel and feel till he understand and to understand so well that he can say, to have perception at the pitch of passion and...

...("Criticism," 1891), he did not find need to mention the word. He described the critic as offering himself "as a general touchstone" : "To lend himself,...perception at the pitch of passion and expression as embracing as the air, to be infinitely curious and incorrigibly patient, and yet plastic and inflammable...

...equipped — armed cap-à-pie in curiosity and sympathy — one falls in love with the apparition. It certainly represents the knight who has knelt through...perception at the pitch of passion and expression as embracing as the air, to be infinitely curious and incorrigibly patient, and yet plastic and inflammable...