Story-writing: Lessons from the MastersHolt, 1926 - 246 pagine |
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Pagina 42
... face of life deserve little more sympathy , than stage acting . However perverse O. Henry may be in other matters , he can be relied upon not to make his reader think ; when he is in danger of thinking O. Henry makes him laugh . There ...
... face of life deserve little more sympathy , than stage acting . However perverse O. Henry may be in other matters , he can be relied upon not to make his reader think ; when he is in danger of thinking O. Henry makes him laugh . There ...
Pagina 90
... face downward among the bottles and glasses . Then he saw his father , as in Mentone , in a top hat with a wide black band on it , wearing mourning for some lady , suddenly seize him by both hands , and they fell headlong into a deep ...
... face downward among the bottles and glasses . Then he saw his father , as in Mentone , in a top hat with a wide black band on it , wearing mourning for some lady , suddenly seize him by both hands , and they fell headlong into a deep ...
Pagina 113
... just that inborn ability to look temptations straight in the face , a readiness unintellectual enough , goodness knows , but without a pose , -a power of resistance , don't you see , ungracious if you like , but JOSEPH CONRAD 113.
... just that inborn ability to look temptations straight in the face , a readiness unintellectual enough , goodness knows , but without a pose , -a power of resistance , don't you see , ungracious if you like , but JOSEPH CONRAD 113.
Pagina 119
... face value . The scene for Poe did not exist for it- self , it was melodramatic like sinister music and low- ered lights provided to evoke a mood ; there is none of this unreality in Conrad's great compelling world of time and space ...
... face value . The scene for Poe did not exist for it- self , it was melodramatic like sinister music and low- ered lights provided to evoke a mood ; there is none of this unreality in Conrad's great compelling world of time and space ...
Pagina 133
... face , the worn out and mourn- ful face so covered with wrinkles that it seemed to look out through the meshes of a fine dark net . . . In the still night bats fluttered in and out of the boughs like fluttering flakes of denser darkness ...
... face , the worn out and mourn- ful face so covered with wrinkles that it seemed to look out through the meshes of a fine dark net . . . In the still night bats fluttered in and out of the boughs like fluttering flakes of denser darkness ...
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action answer appear artist ballad beauty beginning called character charm close comes Compare Conrad consciousness course demands desired effect element emotional experience expression eyes face fact feel fiction girl give given hand head heart Henry Henry's hold human idea importance impression interest James keep leading leave less LESSON light lives look master material matter mean ment method mind moral motive nature never objective play plot Poe's preparation present question reach Read reader realist reality response result seems selection sense sentimentality short significance story strange suggest surprise tells thing thought tion truth turn understand whole wife writer wrote
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Pagina 5 - thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Pagina 32 - And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
Pagina xv - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of...
Pagina 94 - But the truth is we are not to take "Anna Karénine " as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life. A piece of life it is. The author has not invented and combined it, he has seen it; it has all happened before his inward eye, and it was in this wise that it happened.
Pagina xv - ... that he can sit down at last, legions of words swarming to his call, dozens of turns of phrase simultaneously bidding for his choice, and he himself knowing what he wants to do and (within the narrow...
Pagina 140 - For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants ; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who docs not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability.
Pagina 32 - And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
Pagina 187 - It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.
Pagina 112 - There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.
Pagina 62 - I know not whether he came in the Hanover ship, But I know that he lies and listens mute In an ancient mansion's crannies and holes : Arsenic, arsenic, sure, would do it, Except that now we poison our babes, poor souls ! It is all used up for that.