The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... soul . At that time ( a time to most people of sufficient ease , when peace seemed certain and prosperity secure ) there was a school of writers who enlarged upon the moral value of suffering . They claimed that it was salutary . They ...
... soul . At that time ( a time to most people of sufficient ease , when peace seemed certain and prosperity secure ) there was a school of writers who enlarged upon the moral value of suffering . They claimed that it was salutary . They ...
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... of literary composition . One does not always want to be reading to the profit of one's soul and there is no pleasanter way of idling away an hour or two than reading a volume of criticism . It is [ 91 ] THE SUMMING UP xxvi ...
... of literary composition . One does not always want to be reading to the profit of one's soul and there is no pleasanter way of idling away an hour or two than reading a volume of criticism . It is [ 91 ] THE SUMMING UP xxvi ...
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... soul . It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill . It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of child- birth ...
... soul . It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill . It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of child- birth ...
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