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Page 96
... emotion remembered in tranquillity ; but a poet's emotion is specific , a poet's rather than a man's , and it is never quite disinterested . That is why women with their instinctive common sense have so often found the love of poets ...
... emotion remembered in tranquillity ; but a poet's emotion is specific , a poet's rather than a man's , and it is never quite disinterested . That is why women with their instinctive common sense have so often found the love of poets ...
Page 128
... emotional ; but it instinctively resents having its emotions stirred and is always ready to escape with a giggle . It is sentimental ; but will only accept sentimentality of its own brand : thus in England it will accept the emotions ...
... emotional ; but it instinctively resents having its emotions stirred and is always ready to escape with a giggle . It is sentimental ; but will only accept sentimentality of its own brand : thus in England it will accept the emotions ...
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... emotion of beauty and what exactly this emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the ęsthetic instinct : the term seems to give it a place among the mainsprings of the human being , [ 298 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... emotion of beauty and what exactly this emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the ęsthetic instinct : the term seems to give it a place among the mainsprings of the human being , [ 298 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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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 sometimes 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