The Modern Novel: A Study of the Purpose and the Meaning of FictionA. A. Knopf, 1918 - 336 páginas |
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The Modern Novel: A Study of the Purpose and the Meaning of Fiction Wilson Follett Visualização integral - 1918 |
The Modern Novel: A Study of the Purpose and the Meaning of Fiction Wilson Follett Visualização integral - 1918 |
The Modern Novel: A Study of the Purpose and Meaning of Fiction Wilson Follett Visualização integral - 1918 |
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Página 93 - I'll not hurt thee, says my uncle Toby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, — I'll not hurt, a hair of thy head: — Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape; — go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Página 24 - AN author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.
Página 28 - Mr. Norris has a fine copy of verses, called Friendship in Perfection, which I wonderfully admire. Have you seen the book?" says Mrs. Veal. "No," says Mrs. Bargrave, "but I have the verses of my own writing out.
Página 92 - I have told you, in a former chapter, that he was a man of courage ; and will add here, that where just occasions presented, or called it forth, I know no man under whose arm I would have sooner taken shelter ; nor did this arise from any insensibility or obtuseness of his intellectual parts ; for he felt...
Página 268 - If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed...
Página 36 - The provision, then, which we have here made is no other than Human Nature. Nor do I fear that my sensible reader, though most luxurious in his taste, will start, cavil, or be offended, because I have named but one article.
Página 278 - For I think that all right use of life, and the one secret of life, is to pave ways for the firmer footing of those who succeed us...
Página 95 - The comic poet is in the narrow field, or enclosed square, of the society he depicts; and he addresses the still narrower enclosure of men's intellects, with reference to the operation of the social world upon their characters.
Página 108 - ... in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Página 92 - My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries ; — not from want of courage ; — I have told you in a former chapter, ' that he was a man of courage...