Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 106
... aspects of her subject stand out most obviously , so that by only setting out the facts in their unemphasised sobriety she can make them amusing . Mrs. Churchill's death had no doubt its solemn aspects , but they were not noticeable ...
... aspects of her subject stand out most obviously , so that by only setting out the facts in their unemphasised sobriety she can make them amusing . Mrs. Churchill's death had no doubt its solemn aspects , but they were not noticeable ...
Page 168
... aspects of experience also prevents her from envisaging its moral aspects . People in her books are shown as happy and sad , beautiful and ugly but seldom as bad and good . Nor , in any consistent way , as loving or hating ; the climate ...
... aspects of experience also prevents her from envisaging its moral aspects . People in her books are shown as happy and sad , beautiful and ugly but seldom as bad and good . Nor , in any consistent way , as loving or hating ; the climate ...
Page 174
... aspects . Not so Virginia Woolf . " How exactly Bond Street ! " we exclaim . " How exactly like a railway engine . But I never knew it was so lovely . " For always she combines beauty with accuracy , and gets her effect , not by ...
... aspects . Not so Virginia Woolf . " How exactly Bond Street ! " we exclaim . " How exactly like a railway engine . But I never knew it was so lovely . " For always she combines beauty with accuracy , and gets her effect , not by ...
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