The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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Page 192
... delight a clique and never reach the great public will never delight posterity , for posterity will never hear about them . It is a consolation to the popular authors who have had it impressed upon them that their popularity was ...
... delight a clique and never reach the great public will never delight posterity , for posterity will never hear about them . It is a consolation to the popular authors who have had it impressed upon them that their popularity was ...
Page 206
... delightful it is to lie in bed . It is astonishing how varied life can be when you stay in bed all day and how much you find to do . I delighted in the privacy of my room with the immense window wide open to the starry winter night . It ...
... delightful it is to lie in bed . It is astonishing how varied life can be when you stay in bed all day and how much you find to do . I delighted in the privacy of my room with the immense window wide open to the starry winter night . It ...
Page 225
... delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in looking at the dancing and miming out of which drama arose . That it exists unimpaired is shown by the vogue of the detective novel . The most intellectual ...
... delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in looking at the dancing and miming out of which drama arose . That it exists unimpaired is shown by the vogue of the detective novel . The most intellectual ...
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accept action actors admire æsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character Chekov comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist effect emotion English evil excited existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave George Meredith Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention Jack Straw knew knowledge Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul speak spirit Stendhal story success suppose talent tell theatre things thought tion told truth Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth