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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... accept . But it was long before Stendhal's example bore fruit . Balzac , with all his genius , drew his characters after the old models . He gave them his own im- mense vitality so that you accept them as real ; but in fact they are ...
... accept . But it was long before Stendhal's example bore fruit . Balzac , with all his genius , drew his characters after the old models . He gave them his own im- mense vitality so that you accept them as real ; but in fact they are ...
Page 280
... accept impulse on the stage . Now an impulse is merely an urge to action of whose motive the agent is not conscious ; it is analogous to an intuition , which is a judgment you make without being aware of its grounds . But though an ...
... accept impulse on the stage . Now an impulse is merely an urge to action of whose motive the agent is not conscious ; it is analogous to an intuition , which is a judgment you make without being aware of its grounds . But though an ...
Page 304
... accept it ; and this is that the work of art must be judged by its fruits , and if these are not good it is valueless . It is an odd fact , which must be accepted as in the nature of things and for which I know no explanation , that ...
... accept it ; and this is that the work of art must be judged by its fruits , and if these are not good it is valueless . It is an odd fact , which must be accepted as in the nature of things and for which I know no explanation , that ...
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