Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 59
... once more irony steps in - Who is he to condemn ? It is true he has chosen to be spectator rather than actor : but he is no wiser than the actors and perhaps enjoys himself less . unfinished Ode on Vicissitude points yet another moral ...
... once more irony steps in - Who is he to condemn ? It is true he has chosen to be spectator rather than actor : but he is no wiser than the actors and perhaps enjoys himself less . unfinished Ode on Vicissitude points yet another moral ...
Page 184
... Once more we are presented with a division ; the divi- sion between the humane , civilised individualistic Schlegels on the one hand and the efficient , Philistine , anti - individualistic Wilcoxes on the other . Mutually attracted and ...
... Once more we are presented with a division ; the divi- sion between the humane , civilised individualistic Schlegels on the one hand and the efficient , Philistine , anti - individualistic Wilcoxes on the other . Mutually attracted and ...
Page 185
... once more benignant . During the feast each one feels himself involuntarily lifted to a region of mystical bliss where human differences are resolved in a sense of the union of all creation . Only as long as it lasts though : in the ...
... once more benignant . During the feast each one feels himself involuntarily lifted to a region of mystical bliss where human differences are resolved in a sense of the union of all creation . Only as long as it lasts though : in the ...
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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