Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 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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action admiration Adolphe æsthetic Antony and Cleopatra Antony's appear artist aspects beauty Branghtons Burney's character charm civilised comedy comic complex convention critic Dalloway death Devil drama Duchess Duchess of Malfi E. M. FORSTER eighteenth-century Elizabethan Ellénore emotion English Evelina experience expression eyes fact Fanny Burney feeling Flamineo Forster give Gray Gray's heart hero heroine historical House of Gentlefolk Howard's End human humour imagination impression inevitably Jane Austen ladies live Longest Journey looked love-story Mansfield Park mind Miss mood moral nature never Northanger Abbey novel novelists observation Octavius once passages passion picture Pindaric play plot poem poetry Progress of Poesy reader realistic reality relation reveals romantic Russian satirical scene seems sense sensibility sentiment Shakespeare shows significance social soul spirit story success talent taste theme things thought tragedy tragic true Turgenev turn Virginia Woolf virtue vision Webster Wilcox worldly writer