The Summing Up |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 25
Page 83
... soul to mammon ; and the intel- ligentsia , of which I had been a modest but respected member , not only turned a cold shoulder on me , that would have been bad enough , but flung me , like Lucifer , headlong into the bottomless pit . I ...
... soul to mammon ; and the intel- ligentsia , of which I had been a modest but respected member , not only turned a cold shoulder on me , that would have been bad enough , but flung me , like Lucifer , headlong into the bottomless pit . I ...
Page 131
... soul . It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill . It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth ...
... soul . It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill . It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth ...
Page 133
... soul which his work has brought him and in the pleasure of shaping it in such a way as to satisfy to some extent at least his ęsthetic sense , he is amply rewarded for his labours , he can afford to be indifferent to the outcome . 50 ...
... soul which his work has brought him and in the pleasure of shaping it in such a way as to satisfy to some extent at least his ęsthetic sense , he is amply rewarded for his labours , he can afford to be indifferent to the outcome . 50 ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe Bertrand Russell better character comedy common consciousness course critic deal delight dialogue discover Dr Johnson drama dramatist effect emotion English evil excited existence experience eyes fact feel fiction forced French gave Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention knew Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind never notion novel novelist one's perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul speak spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal story success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth