The Summing Up |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 28
Page 26
... attention to the writers of the Augustan Period . The prose of Swift enchanted me . I made up my mind that this was the perfect way to write and I started to work on him in the same way as I had done with Jeremy Taylor . I chose The ...
... attention to the writers of the Augustan Period . The prose of Swift enchanted me . I made up my mind that this was the perfect way to write and I started to work on him in the same way as I had done with Jeremy Taylor . I chose The ...
Page 34
... attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it . It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things . No one wrote in this ...
... attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it . It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things . No one wrote in this ...
Page 124
... attention of the audi- ence on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this prac- tice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare . It is the difficulty of ...
... attention of the audi- ence on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this prac- tice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare . It is the difficulty of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover Dr Johnson drama dramatist effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave George Meredith Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe hard Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention knew Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind ness never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal story success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth