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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... hands on . } xxii I lived at this time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts that seemed to me much ... hand and that their verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination . The point ...
... hands on . } xxii I lived at this time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts that seemed to me much ... hand and that their verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination . The point ...
Page 80
... hand , with the arts should regard competence with so little favour . I am told that there are natural singers and made singers . Though of course he must have something of a voice the made singer owes the better part of his ...
... hand , with the arts should regard competence with so little favour . I am told that there are natural singers and made singers . Though of course he must have something of a voice the made singer owes the better part of his ...
Page 104
... hands from the first lifeless reading of the typescript to some- thing like the character that I have seen in my mind's ... hand . But the consummation is the dress rehearsal . There are half- a - dozen people in the front - row of the ...
... hands from the first lifeless reading of the typescript to some- thing like the character that I have seen in my mind's ... hand . But the consummation is the dress rehearsal . There are half- a - dozen people in the front - row of the ...
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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