The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... French nurses and I had been sent to a French school for children . My knowl- edge of English must have been slight . I have been told that on one occasion , seeing a horse out of the window of a railway carriage , I cried : ' Regardez ...
... French nurses and I had been sent to a French school for children . My knowl- edge of English must have been slight . I have been told that on one occasion , seeing a horse out of the window of a railway carriage , I cried : ' Regardez ...
Page 102
... French . For French is the common language of educated , men and it is certainly convenient to speak it well enough to be able to treat of any subject of discourse that may arise . It has a great literature ; other countries , with the ...
... French . For French is the common language of educated , men and it is certainly convenient to speak it well enough to be able to treat of any subject of discourse that may arise . It has a great literature ; other countries , with the ...
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... French an acute sense of discom- fort . The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the novel aroused their inter- est , but have little affected their practice . The fact is that they are suspicious of form . They ...
... French an acute sense of discom- fort . The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the novel aroused their inter- est , but have little affected their practice . The fact is that they are suspicious of form . They ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover Dr Johnson drama dramatist effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe hard Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention Jack Straw knew Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind ness never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal story success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth