Partial PortraitsMacmillan, 1888 - 408 páginas |
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Página 397 - blessed with the faculty which when you give it an inch takes an ell, and which for the artist is a much greater source of strength than any accident of residence or of place in the social scale. The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the
Página 397 - She had got her direct personal impression, and she turned out her type. She knew what youth^ was, and what Protestantism ; she also had the advantage of having seen what it was to be French, so that she converted these ideas into a concrete image and produced a reality. Above all, however, she
Página 402 - completeness, have but one name for the novel, and have not attempted smaller things in it, that I can see, for that. I can think of no obligation to which the "romancer" would not be held equally with the novelist ; the standard of execution is equally high for each. Of course it is of execution
Página 393 - it is what is most personal to him, and we measure him by that!^ The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the ) novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may \ attempt as an executant—no limit to his possible
Página 160 - like the sheets of characters of my boyhood, one penny plain and twopence coloured, I should go the length of twopence every day of my life." Indeed the colour of Scotland has entered into him altogether, and though, oddly enough, he has written but little about his native country, his happiest work
Página 157 - as a high flight of metaphysics—namely, that the business of life is mainly carried on by the difficult art of literature, and according to a man's proficiency in that art shall be the freedom and fulness of his intercourse with other men.
Página 394 - a young lady brought up in a quiet country village should avoid descriptions of garrison life," and "a writer whose friends and personal experiences belong to the lower middle-class should carefully avoid introducing his characters into