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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... offer is that so instinctive is each one's convic- tion that he is unique in the world , and privileged , that he feels that , however wrong it might be for others , what he for his part does , if not natural and right , is at least ...
... offer is that so instinctive is each one's convic- tion that he is unique in the world , and privileged , that he feels that , however wrong it might be for others , what he for his part does , if not natural and right , is at least ...
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... offer great diffi- culty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they have absorbed with their mothers ' milk , and innate attitudes which the foreigner can never 1 : quite seize . It is hard enough for [ 101 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... offer great diffi- culty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they have absorbed with their mothers ' milk , and innate attitudes which the foreigner can never 1 : quite seize . It is hard enough for [ 101 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel read- ers , have since then given most of their ... offer something new in technique [ 216 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel read- ers , have since then given most of their ... offer something new in technique [ 216 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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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