Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 50
... imagination . A well - cooked mutton - chop appeals to our senses but not , I fancy , to our imagina- tion ; so , however agreeable to the palate , it cannot legitimately be called beautiful . An heroic action appeals to our imagination ...
... imagination . A well - cooked mutton - chop appeals to our senses but not , I fancy , to our imagina- tion ; so , however agreeable to the palate , it cannot legitimately be called beautiful . An heroic action appeals to our imagination ...
Page 57
... imagination . As might be expected , this is historical . For him the groves and courts of the University are haunted by the ghosts of its founders , Margaret of Anjou , Edward III , Henry VI , and Henry VIII ; and of the great spirits ...
... imagination . As might be expected , this is historical . For him the groves and courts of the University are haunted by the ghosts of its founders , Margaret of Anjou , Edward III , Henry VI , and Henry VIII ; and of the great spirits ...
Page 104
... imagination . So that every inch of her book is vital . She is not only true to the rules of literary art in general ; she is also true to the particular laws that govern the art of the novel . The novelist has a more complex task than ...
... imagination . So that every inch of her book is vital . She is not only true to the rules of literary art in general ; she is also true to the particular laws that govern the art of the novel . The novelist has a more complex task than ...
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