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Page 93
... ideas that can affect them when they are welded together in that unity which is an audience , are those commonplace , funda- mental ideas that are almost feelings . These , the root ideas of poetry , are love , death and the destiny ...
... ideas that can affect them when they are welded together in that unity which is an audience , are those commonplace , funda- mental ideas that are almost feelings . These , the root ideas of poetry , are love , death and the destiny ...
Page 94
... ideas in the theatre is that if they are acceptable , they are accepted and so kill the play that helped to diffuse them . For nothing is so tiresome in the threatre as to be forced to listen to the exposition of ideas that you are ...
... ideas in the theatre is that if they are acceptable , they are accepted and so kill the play that helped to diffuse them . For nothing is so tiresome in the threatre as to be forced to listen to the exposition of ideas that you are ...
Page 95
... ideas , when he presents it to them they sniff at it if the ideas are familiar to them , thinking modestly that what they know already is commonplace , and if the ideas are unfamiliar to them , they think them perfect nonsense and come ...
... ideas , when he presents it to them they sniff at it if the ideas are familiar to them , thinking modestly that what they know already is commonplace , and if the ideas are unfamiliar to them , they think them perfect nonsense and come ...
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