 My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see.  The Writer - 33. lappuse1927Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Henry Louis Mencken - 1917 - 298 lapas
...life as men live it in the world, and of its unfathomable romance and mystery. "My task," he went on, "is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything." . . .1 This detachment... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1919 - 332 lapas
...demand to be promptly improved or encouraged, or frightened, or shocked, or charmed, must run thus: — My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power...make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts:... | |
 | 1919 - 926 lapas
...he had, could realize it in words with such compelling vividness. " My task," Conrad once wrote, " which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the...you feel — it is, before all, to make you see." That man is, indeed, blind in soul as in vision to whom this scene, as by a conjurer's wand, is not... | |
 | Henry Louis Mencken - 1919 - 304 lapas
...shared. Joseph Conrad, in a memorable piece of criticism, once put the thing clearly. "My task," he said, "is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, above all, to make you see." Here seeing, it must be obvious, is no more than feeling put into physical... | |
 | Henry Louis Mencken - 1919 - 266 lapas
...shared. Joseph Conrad, in a memorable piece of criticism, once put the thing clearly. "My task," he said, "is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, above all, to make you see." Here seeing, it must be obvious, is no more than feeling put into physical... | |
 | Alfred A. Knopf, Inc - 1920 - 196 lapas
...say, in the words of a document already referred to, and important in the history of fictional art : " My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power...make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts:... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown - 1921 - 386 lapas
...demand to be promptly improved, or encouraged, or frightened, or shocked, or charmed, must run thus: — My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power...make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts:... | |
 | University of North Carolina (1793-1962). University Extension Division - 1923 - 758 lapas
...his remarkable tales of philosophical realism. He says in the preface to The Nigger of the Narcitsus, "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power...you feel — it is, before all, to make you see." Conrad tries to determine the forces of character, of human and physical environment, of fate, that... | |
 | John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert - 1921 - 228 lapas
...SUGGESTIONS FOR READING 1. Keep in mind, as you read, Conrad's own statement of his aim :" My task . . . is, by the power of the written word, to make you...make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything." In a word, it is to reach the emotions through appeal... | |
 | John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert - 1921 - 230 lapas
...SUGGESTIONS FOR READING 1. Keep in mind, as you read, Conrad's own statement of his aim: "My task . . . is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything." In a word, it... | |
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