The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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Page 34
... attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it . It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things . No one wrote in this ...
... attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it . It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things . No one wrote in this ...
Page 124
... attention of the audi- ence on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this prac- tice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare . It is the difficulty of ...
... attention of the audi- ence on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this prac- tice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare . It is the difficulty of ...
Page 161
... attention ; among them were those of John Oliver Hobbs . They were thought witty and audacious . They made the author's name and confirmed the prestige of the series . I wrote two short stories which together , I thought , would make a ...
... attention ; among them were those of John Oliver Hobbs . They were thought witty and audacious . They made the author's name and confirmed the prestige of the series . I wrote two short stories which together , I thought , would make a ...
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accept action actors admire æsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth