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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... longer . In youth the years stretch before one so long that it is hard to realize that they will ever pass , and even in middle age , with the ordinary expectation of life in these days , it is easy to find ex- cuses for delaying what ...
... longer . In youth the years stretch before one so long that it is hard to realize that they will ever pass , and even in middle age , with the ordinary expectation of life in these days , it is easy to find ex- cuses for delaying what ...
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... longer take any great interest in it . I was curious to see how it would act , but when once I had given it over to others , like a bitch who takes no more concern in her puppies when others have han- dled them , I could no longer look ...
... longer take any great interest in it . I was curious to see how it would act , but when once I had given it over to others , like a bitch who takes no more concern in her puppies when others have han- dled them , I could no longer look ...
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... longer book about the slums . He told me that was what the public wanted from me and prophesied that it would have , now that I had broken the ice , a far greater success than Liza of Lambeth . But this was not in my ideas at all . I ...
... longer book about the slums . He told me that was what the public wanted from me and prophesied that it would have , now that I had broken the ice , a far greater success than Liza of Lambeth . But this was not in my ideas at all . I ...
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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