 You know how opposed your whole "third manner" of execution is to the literary ideals which animate my crude and Orson-like breast, mine being to say a thing in one sentence as straight and explicit as it can be made, and then to drop it forever ; yours...  The Quarterly Review - Page 26edited by - 1921Full view - About this book
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1921 - 620 pages
...say a thing in one sentence as straight and explicit as it can be made, and then to drop it forever; yours being to avoid naming it straight, but by dint...round it, to arouse in the reader who may have had » similar perception already (Heaven help him if he hasn't!) the illusion of a solid object, made... | |
 | 1920 - 1032 pages
...say a thing in one sentence, as straight and explicit as it can be made, and then to drop it forever; yours being to avoid naming it straight, but by dint...sighing all round and round it to arouse in the reader . . . the illusion of a solid object. But you do it, that's the queerness . . . Nineteen out of twenty... | |
 | 1921 - 604 pages
...say a thing in one sentence as straight and explicit as it can be made, and then to drop it forever ; yours being to avoid naming it straight, but by dint...Polytechnic) wholly out of impalpable materials, air, ami the prismatic interferences of light, ingeniously focused by mirrors upon empty space. But you... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1921 - 660 pages
...say a thing in one sentence as straight and explicit aa it can be made, and then to drop it forever; yours being to avoid naming it straight, but by dint...illusion of a solid object, made ^like- the " ghost'' «t the Polytechnic) wholly out of impalpable materials, air, and the prismatic interferences of light,... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1921 - 694 pages
...say a thing in one sentence as straight and explicit as it can be made, and then to drop it forever ; yours being to avoid naming it straight, but by dint...hasn't!) the illusion of a solid object, made (like the "ghoet" at the Polytechnic) wholly out of impalpable materials, air, and the prismatic interferences... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1924 - 244 pages
...say a thing in one sentence as straight and explicit as it can be made, and then to drop it forever ; yours being to avoid naming it straight, but by dint...if he hasn't!) the illusion of a solid object, made . . . wholly out of impalpable materials, air and the prismatic interferences of light, ingeniously... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1926 - 622 pages
...say a thing in one sentence as straight and explicitly as it can be made, and then drop it forever; yours being to avoid naming it straight, but by dint...him if he hasn't!) the illusion of a solid object. . . . But it's the rummest method for one to employ systematically. . . . Say it out, for God's sake... | |
 | William James, Henry James - 1997 - 620 pages
...able to settle down to your "Scene in America," which in its peculiar way seems to me supremely great. You know how opposed your whole "third manner" of...(like the "ghost" at the Polytechnic) wholly out of impa[llpable materials, air, and the prismatic interferences of light, ingeniously focused by mirrors... | |
 | Fred Kaplan - 1999 - 680 pages
...to say a thing in one sentence as straight and explicit as it can be made, and then drop it forever; yours being to avoid naming it straight, but by dint...reader who may have had a similar perception already ... the illusion of a solid object, made . . . wholly out of impalpable materials, air, and the prismatic... | |
 | Ronnie Bailie - 2000 - 142 pages
...say a thing in one sentence as straight and explicit as it can be made, and then to drop it forever; yours being to avoid naming it straight, but by dint...out of impalpable materials, air, and the prismatic inferences of light, ingeniously focussed by mirrors upon empty space .... But it's the rummest method... | |
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