| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1924 - 506 oldal
...He once explained that his purpose was not to edify, to console, to improve, or to encourage ; but ' by the power of the written word to make you hear,...make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything.' It is a darkly glowing canvas that stretches before us,... | |
| 1897 - 794 oldal
...encouraged, or frightened, or shocked, or charmed, must run thus :—" 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. That—and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed,... | |
| 1905 - 1008 oldal
...encouraged, or frightened, or shocked, or charmed, must run thus: My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear,...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,... | |
| Henry Louis Mencken - 1905 - 150 oldal
...he succeeds. " My task," said Joseph Conrad the other day, in discussing the aims of the novelist, " 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. . . ." "All that I have composed," said Hendrik Ibsen, in xxi an address to the... | |
| 1912 - 878 oldal
...encouraged, or frightened, or shocked, or charmed, must run thus: My task which I am trying to achieve 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. If I succeed, you shall find there, according to your deserts,... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1914 - 250 oldal
...encouraged, or frightened, or shocked, or charmed, must run thus: — My task which I am trying to achieve 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. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts:... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1916 - 240 oldal
...encouraged, or frightened, or shocked, or charmed, must run thus: — :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, Jbefore^fl, to make you see. That — a53 no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find... | |
| Henry Louis Mencken - 1917 - 296 oldal
...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...make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything." . . .1 This detachment from all infra-and-ultra-artistic... | |
| Henry Louis Mencken - 1917 - 298 oldal
...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 - 1920 - 366 oldal
...encouraged, or frightened, or shocked, or charmed, must run thus: — My task which I am trying to achieve 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. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts:... | |
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