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Page 108
... civilized world of the eighteenth century the actors gave life a touch of fantasy .
Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and
the heroic parts they played , the verse they spoke , invested them with a halo .
... civilized world of the eighteenth century the actors gave life a touch of fantasy .
Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and
the heroic parts they played , the verse they spoke , invested them with a halo .
Page 238
It is close to us in point of time so that with a very small effort of imagination we
can put ourselves into the men who made it . They are almost contemporaries .
And what they did and what they thought affect the lives we lead today ; after a ...
It is close to us in point of time so that with a very small effort of imagination we
can put ourselves into the men who made it . They are almost contemporaries .
And what they did and what they thought affect the lives we lead today ; after a ...
Page 283
The novelist constructs a public world out of his own private world and gives to
the characters of his fancy a sensitiveness , a power of reflection and an
emotional capacity , which are peculiar to himself . Most people have little
imagination and ...
The novelist constructs a public world out of his own private world and gives to
the characters of his fancy a sensitiveness , a power of reflection and an
emotional capacity , which are peculiar to himself . Most people have little
imagination and ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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