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 139
... feeling that it was worth while , and the man who has done it feels even a certain pride in the fact ; in England he will be thought and will think himself a damned fool . That is why Antony and Cleopatra has always been the least ...
... feeling that it was worth while , and the man who has done it feels even a certain pride in the fact ; in England he will be thought and will think himself a damned fool . That is why Antony and Cleopatra has always been the least ...
Page 177
... feeling that to write or to paint is not a man's work , and the social force of this keeps many from entering the ... feels is significant to his purpose and , consciously or unconsciously , he is forever stor- ing and making over his ...
... feeling that to write or to paint is not a man's work , and the social force of this keeps many from entering the ... feels is significant to his purpose and , consciously or unconsciously , he is forever stor- ing and making over his ...
Page 202
... feelings of any traveller interested in art and curious to see what he could of the manners of a strange people whose ... feeling . This was free- dom of the spirit on the one hand , and on the other , the collection of all manner of ...
... feelings of any traveller interested in art and curious to see what he could of the manners of a strange people whose ... feeling . This was free- dom of the spirit on the one hand , and on the other , the collection of all manner of ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic 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