 The reason my books deal with the past instead of with the life I myself have known is simply this, that I soon grow tired of writing tales unless I can see a little girl, of whom my mother has told me, wandering confidently through the pages. Such a...  Kailyard and Scottish Literature - Σελίδα 83των Andrew Nash - 2007 - 268 σελίδεςΠεριορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | James Matthew Barrie - 1898 - 384 σελίδες
...story, or the story of a single wynd in it ? And who looking at lighted windows needs to turn to books ? The reason my books deal with the past instead of...told me, wandering confidently through the pages. Such a grip has her memory of her girlhood had upon me since I was a boy of six. Those innumerable... | |
 | James Matthew Barrie - 1896 - 386 σελίδες
...story, or the story of a single wynd in it ? And who looking at lighted windows needs to turn to books ? The reason my books deal with the past instead of...told me, wandering confidently through the pages. Such a grip has her memory of her girlhood had upon me since I was a boy of six. Those innumerable... | |
 | James Matthew Barrie - 1896 - 242 σελίδες
...story, or the story of a single wynd in it ? And who looking at lighted windows needs to turn to books? The reason my books deal with the past instead of...told me, wandering confidently through the pages. Such a grip has her memory of her girlhood had upon me since I was a boy of six. her youth as vivid... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 176 σελίδες
...eyes of all who looked to beautiful thoughts, and that is the beginning and end of literature. . . . The reason my books deal with the past instead of...told me, wandering confidently through the pages. Such a grip has her memory of her girlhood had upon me since I was a boy of six. ... So much of what... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 180 σελίδες
...eyes of all who looked to beautiful thoughts, and that is the beginning and end of literature. . . . The reason my books deal with the past instead of...told me, wandering confidently through the pages. Such a grip has her memory of her girlhood had upon me since I was a boy of six. . . . So much of what... | |
 | Sir John Alexander Hammerton - 1900 - 288 σελίδες
...rThe reason my books deal with the past instead of with the life I myself have known," he writes, " is simply this, that I soon grow tired of writing...told me, wandering confidently through the pages. \ Such a grip has her memory of her girlhood -had upon me since I was a boy of six. Those innumerable... | |
 | Fritz Loose - 1912 - 116 σελίδες
...nicht das Thrums von heute, sondern Thrums, wie es in der Jugendzeit seiner Mutter gewesen sein mag. „The reason my books deal with the past instead...told me, wandering confidently through the pages. Such a grip has her memory of her girlhood had upon me since I was a boy of six" (BOS 38 Z. 7—15).... | |
 | James Matthew Barrie - 1913 - 288 σελίδες
...story, or the story of a single wynd in it ? And who looking at lighted windows needs to turn to books ? The reason my books deal with the past instead of...told me, wandering confidently through the pages. Such a grip has her memory of her girlhood had upon me since I was a boy of six. Those innumerable... | |
 | Cornelius Weygandt - 1925 - 526 σελίδες
...his mother as a young girl. He tells us of his feeling about the matter in Margaret Ogilvy (1896): "The reason my books deal with the past instead of...told me, wandering confidently through the pages. . . . The people I see passing up and down these wynds, sitting nightcapped, on their barrow-shafts,... | |
 | Cecil D. Eby - 1987 - 308 σελίδες
...and imagined recreation of his mother as a child. Years later he wrote of his mother fixation: "... I grow tired of writing tales unless I can see a little...told me, wandering confidently through the pages. Such a girl as her memory of her girlhood had upon me since I was a boy of six." He seemed unable to... | |
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