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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... known Swinburne intimately and could talk about him in an entrancing fashion , but he could also talk of Shelley , whom after all he could not possibly have known , as if he had been a bosom - friend . For many years he had been ...
... known Swinburne intimately and could talk about him in an entrancing fashion , but he could also talk of Shelley , whom after all he could not possibly have known , as if he had been a bosom - friend . For many years he had been ...
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... known as plays of atmosphere . The best known of them , of course , are Chekov's . Since the interest is not concentrated on two or three persons , but on a group , and since the theme is their relations with one another and the ...
... known as plays of atmosphere . The best known of them , of course , are Chekov's . Since the interest is not concentrated on two or three persons , but on a group , and since the theme is their relations with one another and the ...
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... known that they were dependent on it . It is the public that pays , and if it is not pleased with the entertainment that is offered it , stays away . A play does not exist without an audience . Indeed the definition of a play is a [ 130 ]
... known that they were dependent on it . It is the public that pays , and if it is not pleased with the entertainment that is offered it , stays away . A play does not exist without an audience . Indeed the definition of a play is a [ 130 ]
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic 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