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Page 96 - A FLEET IN BEING. Notes of Two Trips with the Channel Squadron.
Page 2 - It is the presentation of such a "complex" instantaneously which gives that sense of sudden liberation; that sense of freedom from time...
Page 42 - My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see...
Page 76 - Under the Greenwood Tree; Far from the Madding Crowd; The Return of the Native; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Woodlanders; Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Jude the Obscure; and the two volumes of short stories; Wessex Tales and Life's Little Ironies.
Page 62 - Where angels fear to tread, 1905; * The longest journey, 1907; A room with a view, 1908; * Howards End, 1910; * A passage to India, 1924.
Page 12 - ECHOES OF THE WAR. Containing: THE OLD LADY SHOWS HER MEDALS — THE NEW WORD — BARBARA'S WEDDING— A WELL-REMEMBERED VOICE.
Page 42 - It must strenuously aspire to the plasticity of sculpture, to the colour of painting, and to the magic suggestiveness of music— which is the art of arts.
Page 1 - ... deliberate artistry .of his style. Set over against splendidly vivid passages others in which there seems to be a straining after unusual effects and word combinations. 4. Make a special study of his metrical experiments. 5. His criticisms of his contemporaries are worth careful study. BIBLIOGRAPHY * Interludes and Poems. 1908. Mary and the Bramble. 1910. The Sale of St. Thomas. 1911. Emblems of Love. 1912. Thomas Hardy. 1912. (Criticism.) * Deborah. 1913. (Play.) Speculative Dialogues. 1913....
Page 74 - Galway, Ireland, married Sir William Gregory in 1881. Has done important work in modernizing and popularizing the folklore of Western Ireland and in writing plays for the Abbey Theatre. Collaborated with Yeats (qv), and translated Dr. Hyde's (qv) plays from Irish. Representative works are: Cuchullain of Muirthemne. 1902. Gods and Fighting Men. 1904. Seven Short Plays. 1909. Irish Folk History Plays. 1912. New Comedies. 1913. Our Irish Theatre. 1913. Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland. 1920....
Page 86 - Adventures among Birds. 1913. * Far Away and Long Ago: History of My Early Life. 1918. Birds in Town and Village.