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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Page 73
... course he had no business to feel , for my apparent kindness was rigidly determined ) he asked me what I would like as a present , I answered with- out hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I ...
... course he had no business to feel , for my apparent kindness was rigidly determined ) he asked me what I would like as a present , I answered with- out hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I ...
Page 134
... course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own life to the hum- ble partner ; I am speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious ...
... course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own life to the hum- ble partner ; I am speaking of the plays in prose with which our modern theatre is alone occupied . I can think of no serious ...
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... course peculiar to himself , that had never before found expression on the stage . The English , whatever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race . Love with them is more sentimental than passionate . They are of course ...
... course peculiar to himself , that had never before found expression on the stage . The English , whatever they were in the Elizabethan era , are not an amorous race . Love with them is more sentimental than passionate . They are of course ...
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