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" Small productions will be more common than bulky books ; there will be more wit than erudition, more imagination than profundity ; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored and rude vigor of thought — frequently of great variety and... "
A Complete Manual of English Literature - Page 481
by Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 540 pages
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 25

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - Civilization - 1926 - 484 pages
...more wit than erudition, more imagination than profundity ; and literary performances will bear the marks of an untutored and rude vigor of thought, — frequently of great variety and singular profundity. The object of authors will be more to astonish than to please, and to stir the passions...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 25

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - Civilization - 1926 - 532 pages
...more wit than erudition, more imagination than profundity; and literary performances will bear the marks of an untutored and rude vigor of thought, — frequently of great variety and singular profundity. The object of authors will be more to astonish than to please, and to stir the passions...
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Is Art Good for Us?: Beliefs about High Culture in American Life

Joli Jensen - Art - 2002 - 244 pages
...then, will have "more wit than erudition, more imagination than profundity; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored and rude vigor of...frequently of great variety and singular fecundity. The object of authors will be to astonish rather than to please, and to stir the passions more than...
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