The Summing Up |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 22
Page 161
... notion that in those mediums I could come nearer to it than I had any chance of doing in the drama . xliii The first novel I wrote was called Liza of Lam- beth . It was accepted by the first publisher to whom I sent it . For some time ...
... notion that in those mediums I could come nearer to it than I had any chance of doing in the drama . xliii The first novel I wrote was called Liza of Lam- beth . It was accepted by the first publisher to whom I sent it . For some time ...
Page 179
... notion that anyone can write well enough to write a book . Writing seems now the favourite relaxation of the human race . Whole families will take to it as in happier times they entered religious houses . Women will write novels to ...
... notion that anyone can write well enough to write a book . Writing seems now the favourite relaxation of the human race . Whole families will take to it as in happier times they entered religious houses . Women will write novels to ...
Page 208
... notion prevailed that anyone who had artistic leanings and wanted to write short stories must write stories like Chekhov . Several writ- ers transplanted Russian melancholy , Russian mysti- cism , Russian fecklessness , Russian despair ...
... notion prevailed that anyone who had artistic leanings and wanted to write short stories must write stories like Chekhov . Several writ- ers transplanted Russian melancholy , Russian mysti- cism , Russian fecklessness , Russian despair ...
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 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