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 84
... expression suggested the tired scepticism of a philosopher who had plumbed the secrets of existence and discovered nothing but van- ity . Having gradually wasted his small fortune , he preferred to live on the generosity of others ...
... expression suggested the tired scepticism of a philosopher who had plumbed the secrets of existence and discovered nothing but van- ity . Having gradually wasted his small fortune , he preferred to live on the generosity of others ...
Page 101
... expression , are wrought , not only of the actions they perform and the words they use , neither of which offer great diffi- culty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they have absorbed with their mothers ' milk , and ...
... expression , are wrought , not only of the actions they perform and the words they use , neither of which offer great diffi- culty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they have absorbed with their mothers ' milk , and ...
Page 138
... 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 sufficiently sexual for the purpose of repro- ducing ...
... 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 sufficiently sexual for the purpose of repro- ducing ...
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