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 108
... imagination in the Age of Reason and the heroic parts they played , the verse they spoke , in- vested them with a halo . In Goethe's Wilhelm Meis- ter , that wonderful and neglected book , you can see with what tenderness the poet ...
... imagination in the Age of Reason and the heroic parts they played , the verse they spoke , in- vested them with a halo . In Goethe's Wilhelm Meis- ter , that wonderful and neglected book , you can see with what tenderness the poet ...
Page 164
... imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears ...
... imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears ...
Page 238
... imagination we can put ourselves into the men who made it . They are almost contemporaries . And what they did and what they thought affect the lives we lead today ; after a fashion we are all descendants of the French Revolution . And ...
... imagination we can put ourselves into the men who made it . They are almost contemporaries . And what they did and what they thought affect the lives we lead today ; after a fashion we are all descendants of the French Revolution . And ...
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