 | 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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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...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 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Henry Louis Mencken - 1905 - 150 ページ
...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 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Frederic Taber Cooper - 1912 - 508 ページ
...demand to be promptly improved, or encouraged, or frightened, or shocked, or charmed, most run thus: My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make yon hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you tee. That—and no more, and it is everything.... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1914 - 198 ページ
...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:... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1914 - 250 ページ
...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:... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1916 - 240 ページ
...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...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 ページ
...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... | |
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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. 
