The Summing Up |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 82
Page 55
I have never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links his arm in mine . I can never forget my- self . The hysteria of the world repels ...
I have never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links his arm in mine . I can never forget my- self . The hysteria of the world repels ...
Page 68
He is the comedian who never quite loses himself in the part , for he is at the same time spectator and actor . It is all very well to say that poetry is emotion remembered in tran- quility ; but a poet's emotion is specific , a poet's ...
He is the comedian who never quite loses himself in the part , for he is at the same time spectator and actor . It is all very well to say that poetry is emotion remembered in tran- quility ; but a poet's emotion is specific , a poet's ...
Page 71
The result is that I have never read the Odyssey but in English and I have never achieved my ambition to read A Thou- sand Nights and a Night in Arabic . When the intelligentsia took up Russia I , remember- ing that Cato had begun to ...
The result is that I have never read the Odyssey but in English and I have never achieved my ambition to read A Thou- sand Nights and a Night in Arabic . When the intelligentsia took up Russia I , remember- ing that Cato had begun to ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able accept action actors admire appearance artist asked attention audience beauty believe better called character claim common complete concerned course critic deal difficult discover drama dramatist easy effect emotion English excited existence experience expression eyes fact feel forced French gave give given hand hard human ideas imagination important instinct interest knew knowledge least less literature live longer look matter meaning mind nature never novel novelist offer once one's passed perfect perhaps persons philosophers picture play pleasure possible produced prose reader reason seemed seen sense sometimes sort speak story success suppose taken tell theatre things thought tion told took truth turn universe wanted whole write written wrote young youth
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |