... repelled by that appearance of insincerity and shallowness of tone, which seems its inevitable drawback. For the mind of the reader, always bent to pick up clues, receives no impression of reality or life, rather of an airless, elaborate mechanism... Scribner's Magazine ... - Página 751892Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne - 1891 - 590 páginas
...your yarn anywhere but at the beginning, and finishing it anywhere but at the end; attracted by its peculiar interest when done, and the peculiar difficulties that attend its execution; repelled by tha. -".ppearance of insincerity and shallowness of tone, which seems its inevitable drawback. For... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1891 - 572 páginas
...your yarn anywhere but at the beginning, and finishing it anywhere but at the end; attracted by its peculiar interest when done, and the peculiar difficulties that attend its execution; repelled by tha. appearance of insincerity and shallowness of tone, which seems its inevitable drawback. For the... | |
| Richard Le Gallienne - 1896 - 308 páginas
...type of story. In such a story, he well says : ' The mind of the reader, always bent to pick up clues, receives no impression of reality or life, rather...insignificant, like a game of chess, not a work of human art.' That is just the reason, doubtless, for that feeling of humiliated self-respect with which we put down... | |
| Brander Matthews - 1907 - 328 páginas
...anywhere but at the beginning, and finishing it anywhere but at the end." They were attracted by its "peculiar interest when done, and the peculiar difficulties that attend its execution." They were " repelled by that appearance of insincerity and shallowness of tone which seems its inevitable... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1912 - 452 páginas
...your yarn anywhere but at the beginning, and finishing it anywhere but at the end ; attracted by its peculiar interest when done, and the peculiar difficulties...For the mind of the reader, always bent to pick up clues, receives no impression of reality or life, rather of an airless, elaborate mechanism ; and the... | |
| Lionel Johnson - 1921 - 122 páginas
...your yarn anywhere but at the beginning and finishing it anywhere but at the end; attracted by its peculiar interest when done, and the peculiar difficulties...shallowness of tone, which seems its inevitable drawback." They determined, by a more artistic method, by a gradual approach to the story, making the chief character... | |
| Ellery Queen - 1969 - 174 páginas
...your yarn anywhere but at the beginning, and finishing it anywhere but at the end; attracted by ... the peculiar difficulties that attend its execution;...appearance of insincerity and shallowness of tone, which seem its inevitable drawback. For the mind of the reader . . . receives no impression of reality or... | |
| Burkhard Niederhoff - 1994 - 254 páginas
...Nachwort zu The Wrecker, "always bent to pick up elews, receives no impression of reality or life, radier of an airless, elaborate mechanism and the book remains...insignificant, like a game of chess, not a work of human art." (XVII, 597 f.) In The Wrecker versuchen Stevenson und sein Koautor Lloyd Osbourne, dieses Defizit des... | |
| Paul Maixner - 1995 - 562 páginas
...your yarn anywhere but at the beginning, and finishing it anywhere but at the end; attracted by its peculiar interest when done, and the peculiar difficulties...shallowness of tone, which seems its inevitable drawback. [From the Epilogue to 'The Wrecker'] They determined, by a more artistic method, by a gradual approach... | |
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