 The initial consideration was that of extent. If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression — for, if two sittings be required, the affairs...  How to Write a Good Play - Page 209by Frank Archer - 1892 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1906 - 214 pages
...initial consideration was that of extent. If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely...derivable from unity of impression — for, if two sillines be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed.... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
...initial consideration was that of extent. If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely...and everything like totality is at once destroyed. But since, ceteris paribus, 1 no poet can afford to dispense with anything that may advance his design,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1908 - 316 pages
...initial consideration was that of extent. If vr any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely...and everything like totality is at once destroyed. But since, ceteris pa' f ribus, no poet can afford to dispense with ANYTHING Othat may advance his... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1909 - 392 pages
...initial consideration was that of extent. If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely...required, the affairs of the world interfere, and every thing like totality is at once destroyed. But since, ceteris paribus, no poet can afford to dispense... | |
 | Carl Henry Grabo - 1913 - 342 pages
...initial consideration was that of extent. If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely...and everything like totality is at once destroyed. But since, ceteris paribus, no poet can afford to dispense with anything that may advance his design,... | |
 | Leonidas Warren Payne - 1913 - 542 pages
...initial consideration was that of extent. If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely...sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, 05 and everything like totality is at once destroyed. But since, ceteris paribus, no poet can afford... | |
 | Carl Henry Grabo - 1913 - 348 pages
...initial consideration was that of extent. If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression—for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1914 - 512 pages
...initial consideration was that of extent. If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely...and everything like totality is at once destroyed. But since, ceteris paribus, no poet can afford to dispense with anything that may advance his design,... | |
 | Max Eastman - 1918 - 142 pages
...initial consideration was that of extent. If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely...and everything like totality is at once destroyed. . . . " My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1921 - 370 pages
...initial consideration was that of extent. If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely...and everything like totality is at once destroyed. But since, ceteris paribus, no poet can afford to dispense with anything that may advance his design,... | |
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