The Summing Up |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 21
Page 31
I could admire them in others as I could admire their far - fetched tropes and the unusual but suggestive language in which they clothed their thoughts but my own invention 31 THE SUMMING UP.
I could admire them in others as I could admire their far - fetched tropes and the unusual but suggestive language in which they clothed their thoughts but my own invention 31 THE SUMMING UP.
Page 80
My admiration was fictitious . I admired because it was the part of a cultured young man to admire . I intoxicated myself with my own enthusiasm . I would not listen to the still small voice within me that carped .
My admiration was fictitious . I admired because it was the part of a cultured young man to admire . I intoxicated myself with my own enthusiasm . I would not listen to the still small voice within me that carped .
Page 90
... whose daughter I read the Purgatorio , and spent laborious days , Ruskin in hand , visiting the sights . I admired everything that Ruskin told me to admire ( even that horrible tower of Giotto ) and turned away in disgust from what ...
... whose daughter I read the Purgatorio , and spent laborious days , Ruskin in hand , visiting the sights . I admired everything that Ruskin told me to admire ( even that horrible tower of Giotto ) and turned away in disgust from what ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able accept action actors admire appearance artist asked attention audience beauty believe better called character claim common concerned course critic deal death difficult discover drama dramatist easy effect emotion English excited existence experience eyes fact feel forced French gave gift give given hard human ideas imagination important instinct interest knew knowledge known least less literature live longer look matter meaning mind nature never notion novel novelist offer once one's passed perhaps persons philosophers picture play pleasure possible produced prose reader reason seemed seen sense sometimes sort speak spirit story success suppose taken tell theatre things thought tion told took truth turn universe wanted whole write written wrote young youth
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |