 Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master — something that, at times, strangely...  The Living Age - Pagina 5571908Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 pagine
...joy of it. Nor is this all, for, says Currer Bell in the same preface to " Wuthering Heights" :— The writer who possesses the creative gift, owns something...lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules * In " Villette," Lucy Snowe begins by disclaiming an unregulated imagination. It was a perilous thing... | |
 | 1870 - 588 pagine
...right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know; I scarcely think it is. But this I know, the writer who possesses the creative gift owns...principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection, and thru. haply, without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent to '... | |
 | Emily Brontë - 1870 - 488 pagine
...right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know : I scarcely think it is. But this I know ; the writer who possesses the creative gift...something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itselfc He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 802 pagine
...Currer Bell scarcely thought the creation of such beings justifiable, but she goes on to say that " the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable of... | |
 | 1873 - 842 pagine
...Heathcliff, Currer Bell scarcely thought the creation of such beings justifiable, but she goes on to say that "the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 pagine
...Currer Bell scarcely thought the creation of such beings justifiable, but she goes on to say that " the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable of... | |
 | 1873 - 746 pagine
...Currer Bell scarcely thought the creation of such beings justifiable, but she goes on to say that " the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable of... | |
 | 1873 - 808 pagine
...scarcely thought the creation of such beings justifiable, but she goes on to say that " the writer wjio possesses the creative gift owns something of which...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable- of... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 804 pagine
...justifiable, but she goes on to say that " the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something ef which he is not always master — something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable of... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1875 - 552 pagine
...Currer Bell scarcely thought the creation of such beings justifiable, but she goes on to say that ' the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.' We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable of... | |
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