The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986 - 448 pagina's Essays beginning at the time of her marriage to Leonard Woolf and ending just after the Armistice. More than half have not been collected previously. "In these essays we see both Woolf's work and her self afresh" (Chicago Tribune). Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index. |
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Pagina 69
... beauty that he is a little hard upon work which has other qualities , perhaps more valuable than beauty . On this account he seems to us less than just to Ibsen and more than generous to Swinburne . ” He can write of Ibsen - ' Given the ...
... beauty that he is a little hard upon work which has other qualities , perhaps more valuable than beauty . On this account he seems to us less than just to Ibsen and more than generous to Swinburne . ” He can write of Ibsen - ' Given the ...
Pagina 117
... beauty so perpetually when we speak of the Greeks , for they do not seem to have our conception of beauty , or of its rarity or of its value . Another power seems to be theirs - the power of gazing with absolute candour upon the truth ...
... beauty so perpetually when we speak of the Greeks , for they do not seem to have our conception of beauty , or of its rarity or of its value . Another power seems to be theirs - the power of gazing with absolute candour upon the truth ...
Pagina 168
... beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that time , the shadow in which the detail of so many things can be discerned which the glare of day flattens out , the depth , the richness , the calm , the humour of the whole ...
... beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that time , the shadow in which the detail of so many things can be discerned which the glare of day flattens out , the depth , the richness , the calm , the humour of the whole ...
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