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Page 113
... move- ment , and vigor . Progression is the animating power which makes the lives of men and women unfold on the printed page , which moves events so that one leads to another , eventually reaching a completion satisfying to the reader ...
... move- ment , and vigor . Progression is the animating power which makes the lives of men and women unfold on the printed page , which moves events so that one leads to another , eventually reaching a completion satisfying to the reader ...
Page 114
... Move- ment is dear to the mind of all men from childhood to old age ; everybody wants to be doing something . What he does may be simple like unraveling a crime with Sherlock Holmes or finding treasure with Jim Hawkins in Steven- son's ...
... Move- ment is dear to the mind of all men from childhood to old age ; everybody wants to be doing something . What he does may be simple like unraveling a crime with Sherlock Holmes or finding treasure with Jim Hawkins in Steven- son's ...
Page 138
... move briskly and ener- getically . Of course , the novelist's purpose governs the tempo of his novels . Mr ... moves far more rapidly than does Cranford . The careful reader will be conscious of the tempo at which his novel is moving ...
... move briskly and ener- getically . Of course , the novelist's purpose governs the tempo of his novels . Mr ... moves far more rapidly than does Cranford . The careful reader will be conscious of the tempo at which his novel is moving ...
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action Æschylus audience ballad beauty Ben Jonson characters charm classic climax comedy complete criticism Darcy death developed dominance drama dramatic literature dramatist Edipus eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan emotional English literature epic essay essayist experience exposition expression fate feel fiction George Eliot Greek tragedy Hamlet heroic heroic couplet human Iago iambic iambic pentameter ideas illusion imaginative important incident influence intense interest King literary lives lyric lyrical poetry Matthew Arnold Milton mind modern narrative neo-classic never novel novelist Othello Pater pattern period play plot poem poet poetic poetry popular present Pride and Prejudice prose reader Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance satire scene sense Shakespeare social sometimes song sonnet soul speech spirit stage stanza story structure student style sweet Tale Tartuffe thee theme thou thought tion trimeter unity verse vivid Walter Pater women words writers
References to this book
Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |