How to Judge a Book: A Handy Method of Criticism for the General ReaderHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 237 σελίδες |
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acters action Anthony Hope Arthur Symons artistic beauty biography characters charm climax color create criticism Dickens dramatic dreams Eden Phillpotts effect element emotional essay fact fancy feel fiction George Eliot George Meredith give grace Hardy heart Henry James hero Hilaire Belloc Howells human interest human nature humor Humphry Ward idea ideals illusion imagery imagination impression incidents intellectual judge kind laws Les Misérables light literary art literature live Marie Corelli matter Meredith merely method mind moral motive narrative never noble novelist object painting perfect personality phrase picture play pleasure plot poet poetic poetry produce prose reader realistic romance Romola scene sentiment short story sincere soul spirit standards Stevenson stir style Sydney Carton sympathy taste Thackeray theme things Thomas Hardy thought tion touch true truth ture unity Vanity Fair verse vital William De Morgan words worth reading writing
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Σελίδα 120 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Σελίδα 190 - Tis dreadful? How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads. To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof. By its own weight made steadfast and immovable. Looking tranquillity! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
Σελίδα 194 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Σελίδα 190 - ... the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock ; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream, That, stirr'd with languid pulses of the oar, Waves all its lazy lilies, and creeps on, Barge-laden, to three arches of a bridge Crown'd with the minster-towers.
Σελίδα 127 - The author loved good women and little children and a pure life ; he had faith in his fellow-men, a kindly sympathy with the lowest, without any subservience to the highest; he retained a belief in the possibility of chivalrous actions, and did not care to envelop them in a cynical suspicion ; he was an author still capable of an enthusiasm. His books are wholesome, full of sweetness and charm, of humor without any sting, of amusement without any stain ; and their more solid qualities are marred...
Σελίδα 195 - ROSE AYLMER AH, WHAT avails the sceptred race! Ah ! what the form divine ! What every virtue, every grace ! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.
Σελίδα 130 - It is in reality simply a part of the essential richness of inspiration— it has nothing to do with the artistic process and it has everything to do with the artistic effect.
Σελίδα xv - But strength alone, though of the Muses born, Is like a fallen angel : trees uptorn, Darkness, and worms, and shrouds, and sepulchres Delight it ; for it feeds upon the burrs And thorns of life ; forgetting the great end Of poesy, that it should be a friend To soothe the cares, and lift the thoughts of man.
Σελίδα 127 - We know well enough that the great author of " The Newcomes " and the great author of " The Heart of Midlothian " recognized the abiding value in literature of integrity, sincerity, purity, charity, faith. These are beneficences ; and Irving's literature, walk round it and measure it by whatever critical instruments you will, is a beneficent literature. The author loved good women and little children and a pure life; he had faith in his fellow-men, a kindly sympathy with the lowest, without any subservience...
Σελίδα 82 - There are, so far as I know, three ways, and three ways only, of writing a story. You may take a plot and fit characters to it, or you may take a character and choose incidents and situations to develop it, or lastly — you must bear with me while I try to make this clear...
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