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 196
... beauty and romance and glad to put a great ocean between me and the trouble that harassed me . I found beauty and romance , but I found also something I had never expected . I found a new self . Ever since I left St Thomas's Hospital I ...
... beauty and romance and glad to put a great ocean between me and the trouble that harassed me . I found beauty and romance , but I found also something I had never expected . I found a new self . Ever since I left St Thomas's Hospital I ...
Page 298
... beauty is relative to the needs of a particular generation , and that to examine the things we consider beautiful for qualities of absolute beauty is futile . If beauty is one of the values that give life significance it is something ...
... beauty is relative to the needs of a particular generation , and that to examine the things we consider beautiful for qualities of absolute beauty is futile . If beauty is one of the values that give life significance it is something ...
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... beauty , but right action . If beauty is one of the great values of life , then it seems hard to believe that the æsthetic sense which enables men to appreciate it should be the privilege only of a class . It is not possible to maintain ...
... beauty , but right action . If beauty is one of the great values of life , then it seems hard to believe that the æsthetic sense which enables men to appreciate it should be the privilege only of a class . It is not possible to maintain ...
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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