Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan Company, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 78
... picture of the varieties of the human scene . His plots are merely the framework on which he stretches this picture . Fanny Burney derives from both , but more from Fielding . Here she was like most of her countrymen . Richardson's ...
... picture of the varieties of the human scene . His plots are merely the framework on which he stretches this picture . Fanny Burney derives from both , but more from Fielding . Here she was like most of her countrymen . Richardson's ...
Page 104
... picture of the world as it is . And this confronts him with two problems . First he has to reconcile reality with imagination . Like all works of art his book should be an expression of his personality ; but it must also be a convincing ...
... picture of the world as it is . And this confronts him with two problems . First he has to reconcile reality with imagination . Like all works of art his book should be an expression of his personality ; but it must also be a convincing ...
Page 162
... picture of the world , then is pri- marily a picture of those aspects of it that stir her imagination and sense of beauty . The ugly and æsthetically insignificant she passes by ; or admits only as they may serve as foil to the beauty ...
... picture of the world , then is pri- marily a picture of those aspects of it that stir her imagination and sense of beauty . The ugly and æsthetically insignificant she passes by ; or admits only as they may serve as foil to the beauty ...
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