Poets and Story-tellersBarnes & Noble, 1961 - 201 pages |
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Page 14
... looked bad . But when they looked better again and he began to grow bored , back he went to her . Surely , he told himself , a man of his personality could keep his power and Cleopatra as well . Gradually this habit of mind grew so ...
... looked bad . But when they looked better again and he began to grow bored , back he went to her . Surely , he told himself , a man of his personality could keep his power and Cleopatra as well . Gradually this habit of mind grew so ...
Page 20
... Looked at from the right angle then , those features of Shakespeare's play which have bewildered his critics appear clear and explicable . They are the logical consequence of the way in which he sees his subject . He envisages it less ...
... Looked at from the right angle then , those features of Shakespeare's play which have bewildered his critics appear clear and explicable . They are the logical consequence of the way in which he sees his subject . He envisages it less ...
Page 31
... looked at near have neither heat nor light . " Ambition , pleasure , beauty , passion , the lust of the eyes and the pride of life - to look to these for happiness is to be certain of disappointment and disillusionment . In monarchical ...
... looked at near have neither heat nor light . " Ambition , pleasure , beauty , passion , the lust of the eyes and the pride of life - to look to these for happiness is to be certain of disappointment and disillusionment . In monarchical ...
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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