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Page 141
... truth but with effect . That willing suspension of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it . The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is ...
... truth but with effect . That willing suspension of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it . The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is ...
Page 295
... Truth , Beauty and Goodness . I have a notion that Truth finds a place in this list for rhetorical reasons . Man invests it with ethical qualities , such as courage , honour and independence of spirit , which indeed are often shown by ...
... Truth , Beauty and Goodness . I have a notion that Truth finds a place in this list for rhetorical reasons . Man invests it with ethical qualities , such as courage , honour and independence of spirit , which indeed are often shown by ...
Page 296
... truth to his vanity , com- fort and advantage . He lives not by truth but by make - believe , and his idealism , it has sometimes seemed to me , is merely his effort to attach the prestige of truth to the fictions he has invented to ...
... truth to his vanity , com- fort and advantage . He lives not by truth but by make - believe , and his idealism , it has sometimes seemed to me , is merely his effort to attach the prestige of truth to the fictions he has invented to ...
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