The Advance of the American Short StoryDodd, Mead, 1923 - 302 lappuses |
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94. lappuse
... representative of her early manner , and The Empty House ( 1910 ) of her later work . Her life as a writer spans a long interval , but I do not think that her stories , which have been admired by competent critics , will last much ...
... representative of her early manner , and The Empty House ( 1910 ) of her later work . Her life as a writer spans a long interval , but I do not think that her stories , which have been admired by competent critics , will last much ...
113. lappuse
... representative of the character- istic qualities and weaknesses , and historically he may prove to have been our most influential man . Bret Harte may claim fairly enough to have given Mark Twain ( 1835-1910 ) , who was known in private ...
... representative of the character- istic qualities and weaknesses , and historically he may prove to have been our most influential man . Bret Harte may claim fairly enough to have given Mark Twain ( 1835-1910 ) , who was known in private ...
194. lappuse
... representative short story writer of the period which immediately preceded our own , and therefore calls for some- what more extended critical treatment than we have devoted to subtler artists . Hitherto , it has seemed impossible to ...
... representative short story writer of the period which immediately preceded our own , and therefore calls for some- what more extended critical treatment than we have devoted to subtler artists . Hitherto , it has seemed impossible to ...
202. lappuse
... representative disci- ple . The distinction of her stories is as evident as their Arctic frigidity . She has assimilated every lesson that her master can teach except tenderness and ease , and in sheer craftsmanship it may 202 THE ...
... representative disci- ple . The distinction of her stories is as evident as their Arctic frigidity . She has assimilated every lesson that her master can teach except tenderness and ease , and in sheer craftsmanship it may 202 THE ...
208. lappuse
... representative of what youths all around us are struggling to realize , not only for themselves but for the world in which they live . There is flaming revolt in these pages if you will , yet a revolt which is eager to create rather ...
... representative of what youths all around us are struggling to realize , not only for themselves but for the world in which they live . There is flaming revolt in these pages if you will , yet a revolt which is eager to create rather ...
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179. lappuse - Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die The unexplained glory flies above them Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind. Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches, Raged at his breast, gulped...
49. lappuse - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
50. lappuse - ... the truth of the human heart— has fairly a right to present that truth under circumstances, to a great extent, of the writer's own choosing or creation. If he think fit, also, he may so manage his atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights and deepen and enrich the shadows of the picture.
82. lappuse - A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events that may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.
81. lappuse - I prefer commencing with the consideration of an effect. Keeping originality always in view — for he is false to himself who ventures to dispense with so obvious and so easily attainable a source of interest — I say to myself, in the first place, "Of the innumerable effects, or impressions, of which the heart, the intellect or (more generally) the soul is susceptible, what one shall I, on the present occasion, choose?
78. lappuse - I believe, noticed in the schools— that in our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.
82. lappuse - In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one preestablished design.
131. lappuse - She sits up, by her dying fire, far into the night, under the spell of recognitions on which she finds the last sharpness suddenly wait. It is a representation simply of her motionlessly seeing^ and an attempt withal to make the mere still lucidity of her act as " interesting " as the surprise of a caravan or the idcntification of a pirate.
47. lappuse - I sat down by the wayside of life like a man under enchantment, and a shrubbery sprung up around me, and the bushes grew to be saplings, and the saplings became trees, until no exit appeared possible through the entangling depths of my obscurity.
62. lappuse - Bartleby. But nothing stirred. I paused; then went close up to him; stooped over, and saw that his dim eyes were open; otherwise he seemed profoundly sleeping. Something prompted me to touch him. I felt his hand, when a tingling shiver ran up my arm and down my spine to my feet. The round face of the grub-man peered upon me now. "His dinner is ready. Won't he dine to-day, either? Or does he live without dining?" "Lives without dining,