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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... hand capable of performing a variety of actions . If you could write lucidly , simply , euphoniously and yet with liveliness you would write perfectly : you would write like Voltaire . And yet we know [ 42 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... hand capable of performing a variety of actions . If you could write lucidly , simply , euphoniously and yet with liveliness you would write perfectly : you would write like Voltaire . And yet we know [ 42 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... hands on . xxii I lived at this time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts that seemed to me much superior ... hand and that their verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination . The point ...
... hands on . xxii I lived at this time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts that seemed to me much superior ... hand and that their verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination . The point ...
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... hands from the first lifeless reading of the typescript to some- thing like the character that I have seen in my mind's ... hand . But the consummation is the dress rehearsal . There are half- a - dozen people in the front - row of the ...
... hands from the first lifeless reading of the typescript to some- thing like the character that I have seen in my mind's ... hand . But the consummation is the dress rehearsal . There are half- a - dozen people in the front - row of the ...
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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