Meaning of “in literary as in all other art, structure…”

The Analects of Confucius, James Legge’s public-domain English translation; Book I opens by connecting learning with steady practice.

Walden, chapter “Reading,” in the discussion of books that can reveal new possibilities and answer enduring questions.

The Art of Literature, “On Style,” T. Bailey Saunders translation, Project Gutenberg #10714. Schopenhauer’s represented English essay says that conviction in the truth and importance of one’s thoughts supplies the enthusiasm for sustained work toward clearer and stronger expression. The volume rearranges Parerga material and the passage remains nineteenth-century literary counsel, not experimental writing science.

An Essay on Criticism, Part II; Pope warns that shallow learning can produce premature confidence before deeper study tempers judgment.

Of Studies; Bacon distinguishes the intellectual uses of reading, conversation, and writing within the essay’s compact account of study and judgment.

Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. Smiles broadens his defence of labour from material production to art, literature, science and knowledge; the universal wording is his historical moral claim, not an empirical rule that effort alone guarantees greatness.