All that we can say is that in certain publications, in certain passages even of the same publication, we find the old respectable plodding, the old blind tentative experiment in poetry and drama: and then without warning-without, as it seems, any possible opportunity of distinguishing chronologically-we find the unmistakable marks of the new wine, of the unapproachable poetry proper, which all criticism, all rationalisation can only indicate and not account for.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
Now, it may be said with truth that Hegel's whole account of the ultimate power in tragedy is a rationalisation of the idea of fate, but his remarks on this particular aspect of fate are neither sufficient nor satisfactory.
"Oxford Lectures on Poetry"
Andrew Cecil Bradley
That was a delightful bit of rationalisation.
"A Dominie in Doubt"
A. S. Neill