 | Walter Besant - 1885 - 106 pages
...accomplished novelists have a habit of giving themselves away which must often bring tears to the eyes of people who take their fiction seriously. I was lately...and this trusting friend are only "making believe." He admits that the events he narrates have not really happened, and that he can give his narrative... | |
 | Arlo Bates - 1901 - 306 pages
...might have been arranged otherwise, the whole dream-world falls to ruin like the palace of Rabesqurat when the pillars were smitten by Shibli. The audience...and this trusting friend are only ' making believe.' He admits that the events he narrates have not really happened, and that he can give his narrative... | |
 | Arlo Bates - 1901 - 312 pages
...might have been arranged otherwise, the whole dream-world falls to ruin like the palace of Rabesqurat when the pillars were smitten by Shibli. The audience...and this trusting friend are only ' making believe.' He admits that the events he narrates have not really happened, and that he can give his narrative... | |
 | Arlo Bates - 1901 - 280 pages
...author has asked attention for his imagination, and instead of it has presented his self -consciousness, that stupid form of vanity. If a thing is not true...and this trusting friend are only * making believe.' He admits that the events he narrates have not really happened, and that he can give his narrative... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
...accomplished novelists have a habit of giving themselves away which must often bring tears to the eyes of people who take their fiction seriously. I was lately...and this trusting friend are only "making believe." He admits that the events he narrates have not really happened, and that he can give his narrative... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 pages
...accomplished novelists have a habit of giving themselves away which must often bring tears to the eyes of people who take their fiction seriously. I was lately...and this trusting friend are only "making believe." He admits that the events he narrates have not really happened, and that he can give his narrative... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...accomplished novelists have a habit of giving themselves away which must often bring tears to the eyes of people who take their fiction seriously. I was lately...and this trusting friend are only "making believe." He admits that the events he narrates have not really happened, and that he can give his narrative... | |
 | Henry James, James Edwin Miller - 1972 - 394 pages
...accomplished novelists have a habit of giving themselves away which must often bring tears to the eyes of people who take their fiction seriously. I was lately...and this trusting friend are only "making believe." He admits that the events he narrates have not really happened, and that he can give his narrative... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 pages
...accomplished novelists have a habit of giving themselves away which must often bring tears to the eyes of people who take their fiction seriously. I was lately struck, in reading over many pages of Anthony Trollope,3 with his want of discretion in this particular. In a digression, a parenthesis or an aside,... | |
 | Henry James - 1986 - 524 pages
...accomplished novelists have a habit of giving themselves away which must often bring tears to the eyes of people who take their fiction seriously. I was lately...and this trusting friend are only "making believe." He admits that the events he narrates have not really happened, and that he can give his narrative... | |
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Trollope, with his want of discretion in this particular. In a digression, a parenthesis or an aside, he concedes to the reader that he and this trusting friend are only "making believe. 
