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Page 93
The only 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 ...
The only 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 ...
Page 94
Shaw's ideas were expressed with great vivacity . They could only have surprised because the intellectual capacity of the audience was inconsiderable . They surprise no longer ; indeed , the young tend to look on them now as ...
Shaw's ideas were expressed with great vivacity . They could only have surprised because the intellectual capacity of the audience was inconsiderable . They surprise no longer ; indeed , the young tend to look on them now as ...
Page 95
His ideas will be neither more nor less original than those of the serious young men who write in these journals . There is no reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of ...
His ideas will be neither more nor less original than those of the serious young men who write in these journals . There is no reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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