The Summing Up |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 86
Page 5
In youth the years stretch before one so long that it is hard to realize that they will ever pass , and even in middle ... Here and there one's know that all men are mortal therefore - and so forth ) , but it remains for us little more ...
In youth the years stretch before one so long that it is hard to realize that they will ever pass , and even in middle ... Here and there one's know that all men are mortal therefore - and so forth ) , but it remains for us little more ...
Page 32
One can do this only by keeping constantly in touch with the writing of an age not too remote from one's own . So can one have a standard by which to test one's own style and an ideal which in one's modern way one can aim at .
One can do this only by keeping constantly in touch with the writing of an age not too remote from one's own . So can one have a standard by which to test one's own style and an ideal which in one's modern way one can aim at .
Page 187
I have only found one explanation that appealed equally to my sensibility and to my imagination . ... It would be less difficult to bear the evils of one's own life if one could think that they were but the necessary outcome of one's ...
I have only found one explanation that appealed equally to my sensibility and to my imagination . ... It would be less difficult to bear the evils of one's own life if one could think that they were but the necessary outcome of one's ...
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 |