Literary Studies (3 ) (English, French, Paperback)


Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1895 edition. Extrait: ...else. I have so often heard him say (and say it with a vigour of emphasis which is rarer in our generation even than in his), --" Sir, I have no literary talent. I cannot write. I never could write anything, and I never would write anything,"--that being so taught, and so vehemently, I came to believe. And there was this to justify my creed. The notes Mr. Robinson used to scatter about him--and he was fond of writing rather elaborate ones--were not always very good. At least they were too long for the busy race of the present generation, and introduced Schiller and Goethe where they need not have appeared. But in these memoirs (especially in the Reminiscences and the Diary; for the moment he gets to a letter the style is worse) the words flow with such an effectual simplicity, that even Southey, the great master of such prose, could hardly have written better. Possibly it was his real interest in his old stories which preserved Mr. Robinson; in his letters he was not so interested and he fell into words and amplifications; but in those ancient anecdotes, which for years were his life and being, the style, as it seems to me, could scarcely be mended even in a word. And though, undoubtedly, the book is much too long in the latter half, I do not blame Dr. Sadler, the editor and biographer, for it, or indeed blame any one. Mr. Robinson had led a very long and very varied life, and some of his old friends had an interest in one part of his reminiscences and some in another. An unhappy editor entrusted with "a deceased's papers " cannot really and in practice omit much that any surviving friends much want to have put in. One man calls with a letter " in which my dear and honoured friend gave me...

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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1895 edition. Extrait: ...else. I have so often heard him say (and say it with a vigour of emphasis which is rarer in our generation even than in his), --" Sir, I have no literary talent. I cannot write. I never could write anything, and I never would write anything,"--that being so taught, and so vehemently, I came to believe. And there was this to justify my creed. The notes Mr. Robinson used to scatter about him--and he was fond of writing rather elaborate ones--were not always very good. At least they were too long for the busy race of the present generation, and introduced Schiller and Goethe where they need not have appeared. But in these memoirs (especially in the Reminiscences and the Diary; for the moment he gets to a letter the style is worse) the words flow with such an effectual simplicity, that even Southey, the great master of such prose, could hardly have written better. Possibly it was his real interest in his old stories which preserved Mr. Robinson; in his letters he was not so interested and he fell into words and amplifications; but in those ancient anecdotes, which for years were his life and being, the style, as it seems to me, could scarcely be mended even in a word. And though, undoubtedly, the book is much too long in the latter half, I do not blame Dr. Sadler, the editor and biographer, for it, or indeed blame any one. Mr. Robinson had led a very long and very varied life, and some of his old friends had an interest in one part of his reminiscences and some in another. An unhappy editor entrusted with "a deceased's papers " cannot really and in practice omit much that any surviving friends much want to have put in. One man calls with a letter " in which my dear and honoured friend gave me...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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United States

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October 2012

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October 2012

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246 x 189 x 5mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

102

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978-1-235-11776-3

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9781235117763

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1-235-11776-6



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