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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... excited my fancy , that I had no time to reflect . The experience of the moment was so vivid that I could not attune my mind to introspection . I have been held back also by the irksomeness of setting down my thoughts in my own person ...
... excited my fancy , that I had no time to reflect . The experience of the moment was so vivid that I could not attune my mind to introspection . I have been held back also by the irksomeness of setting down my thoughts in my own person ...
Page 117
... excited . I think I lack the quality of being surprised , and just as in my journeys I have accepted the most curious sights and the most novel circumstances as perfectly ordinary , so that I have had to force myself to notice that they ...
... excited . I think I lack the quality of being surprised , and just as in my journeys I have accepted the most curious sights and the most novel circumstances as perfectly ordinary , so that I have had to force myself to notice that they ...
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... excitement or melts you to tears by reminding you of some long- forgotten scene , or through its associations exalts you to mystic rapture . It does ; and these sides of it are just as much part and parcel of the æsthetic emo- tion as ...
... excitement or melts you to tears by reminding you of some long- forgotten scene , or through its associations exalts you to mystic rapture . It does ; and these sides of it are just as much part and parcel of the æsthetic emo- tion as ...
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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