 To preserve, for instance, a becoming brevity — a brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant — that, surely, is the first duty of the biographer. The second, no less surely, is to maintain his own freedom of...  Outlook and Independent - Стр. 2831920Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Lytton Strachey - 1918 - Страниц: 392
...biographer. The second, no less surely, is to maintain his own freedom of spirit. It is not his business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare...intentions. To quote the words of a Master — " Je n'impose rien; je ne propose rien: j 'expose. " LS A list of the principal sources from which I have... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - 1918 - Страниц: 412
...biographer. The second, no less surely, is to maintain his own freedom of spirit. It is not his business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare...intentions. To quote the words of a Master — " Je n'impose rien; je ne propose rien: j 'expose. " LS A list of the principal sources from which I have... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - 1918 - Страниц: 392
...biographer. The second, no less surely, is to maintain his own freedom of spirit. It is not his business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare...understands them. That is what I have aimed at in this book—to lay bare the facts of some cases, as I understand them, dispassionately, impartially, and... | |
 | Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane - 1918 - Страниц: 468
...biographer. The second no less surely is to maintain his own freedom of spirit. It is not his business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them." Lytton Strachey's portrait of Florence Nightingale is perhaps the most extreme and illuminating illustration... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1920 - Страниц: 358
...of selection, of detachment, of design ? . . . What I have aimed at in this book is to lay bare 167 the facts of some cases, as I understand them, dispassionately,...intentions. To quote the words of a master — ' Je n'impose rien ; je ne propose rien : j'expose.' " There is a " bite " about these remarks which prepares... | |
 | Thomas Morris Longstreth - 1927 - Страниц: 476
...biographer. The second, no less surely, is to maintain his own freedom of spirit. It is not his business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them." A becoming brevity ... no compliments . . . the facts! An admirable program for any historian! I took... | |
 | Carl Van Doren, Mark Van Doren - 1925 - Страниц: 432
...biographer. The second, no less surely, is to maintain his own freedom of spirit. It is not his business to be complimentary ; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them." Strachey, true to his profession, took pains to understand himself as well as the people whose lives... | |
 | Montgomery Belgion - 1950 - Страниц: 312
...claimed instead to preserve ... a becoming brevity, ... to maintain his own freedom of spirit, ... to lay bare the facts of some cases, as I understand...dispassionately, impartially, and without ulterior intentions. The claim had an agreeable speciousness. On turning from the preface to the narratives that followed,... | |
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - 1989 - Страниц: 246
...What is puzzling in Strachey's preface is his idealization of impartiality. "It is [the biographer's] business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he...dispassionately, impartially and without ulterior intentions." But anyone who has read so much as a paragraph of Strachey's masterpiece knows that what makes it the... | |
 | Steve Weinberg - 1992 - Страниц: 276
...Pathography Strachey said in the preface's final paragraph that it is not the biographer's business "to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare...dispassionately, impartially, and without ulterior intentions." Strachey was saying that a biography belongs to the author, not to the subject. His approach fit well... | |
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