I cannot build a house for my ideas," said he; "I have tried to do without words, and words take their revenge on me by their difficulty." "If there is a man upon earth tormented by the cursed desire to get a whole book into a page, a whole page into... Essays in Criticism - Стр. 279авторы: Matthew Arnold - 1895 - Страниц: 379Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| William Mathews - 1876 - Страниц: 474
...such an extreme that he tried almost to do without words. " If there is a man on earth," said he, " tormented by the cursed desire to get a whole book...this phrase into one word, — that man is myself." The ambition of many American speakers, and not a few writers, is apparently the reverse of this. We... | |
| 1877 - Страниц: 828
...words revenge/ themselves by difficulty. If there is a man tormented by the cursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and this phrase into a word, it is I. Certain parts spring up in me naturally, too finished to allow me to dispense with... | |
| 1878 - Страниц: 794
...miniature-painting of himself: — If ever a man was tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, I am that man. It will be said that I speak with .-subtlety. This is sometimes... | |
| 1878 - Страниц: 800
...miniature-painting of himself :— If ever a man was tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, I am that man. It will be said that I speak with subtlety. This is sometimes... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1903 - Страниц: 858
...of matter and of style. Said Joubert : " If there is a man tormented by the accursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, it is I." Little wonder that Joubert has succeeded La Rochefoucauld as the... | |
| John Morley - 1887 - Страниц: 72
...suffered from what a famous writer of aphorisms in our time has described as " the cursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and the phrase into a word." But the moral thought itself in Tacitus mostly belongs less to the practical... | |
| William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1890 - Страниц: 336
...the literary form of his work : If there exists a man tormented by the accursed ambition of putting a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, that man is myself. Joubert was a natural unchangeable classicist in taste... | |
| John Duncan Quackenbos - 1896 - Страниц: 492
...conquered ! " Brevity is forceful. " If there is a man on earth," said Joubert, " tormented by the desire to get a whole book into a page, a whole page...phrase, and this phrase into one word, — that man is myself."1 In contrast to such desire for concentration of energy is the prevailing American tendency... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - Страниц: 448
...very keystone of the arch of his fame : " If there is a man tormented by the accursed ambition to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and that phrase into a word, it is I." All these passages are from that first chapter, ' The author portrayed... | |
| 1896 - Страниц: 450
...and Emerson might say, even more than Joubert, that if any man ever lived who made it his aim to put a whole book into a page, a whole page into a phrase, and a whole phrase into a word, he is that man. (.S"i7 est un homme tourmente par la maudite ambition dc... | |
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