 To preserve, for instance, a becoming brevity — a brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant — that, surely, is the first duty of the biographer. The second, no less surely, is to maintain his own freedom of...  Outlook and Independent - Stran 2831920Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Lytton Strachey - 1918 - 392 strani
...biographer. The second, no less surely, is to maintain his own freedom of spirit. It is not his business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare...intentions. To quote the words of a Master — " Je n'impose rien; je ne propose rien: j 'expose. " LS A list of the principal sources from which I have... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - 1918 - 412 strani
...biographer. The second, no less surely, is to maintain his own freedom of spirit. It is not his business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare...intentions. To quote the words of a Master — " Je n'impose rien; je ne propose rien: j 'expose. " LS A list of the principal sources from which I have... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - 1918 - 392 strani
...biographer. The second, no less surely, is to maintain his own freedom of spirit. It is not his business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare...understands them. That is what I have aimed at in this book—to lay bare the facts of some cases, as I understand them, dispassionately, impartially, and... | |
 | Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane - 1918 - 468 strani
...biographer. The second no less surely is to maintain his own freedom of spirit. It is not his business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them." Lytton Strachey's portrait of Florence Nightingale is perhaps the most extreme and illuminating illustration... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1920 - 358 strani
...of selection, of detachment, of design ? . . . What I have aimed at in this book is to lay bare 167 the facts of some cases, as I understand them, dispassionately,...intentions. To quote the words of a master — ' Je n'impose rien ; je ne propose rien : j'expose.' " There is a " bite " about these remarks which prepares... | |
 | Thomas Morris Longstreth - 1927 - 476 strani
...biographer. The second, no less surely, is to maintain his own freedom of spirit. It is not his business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them." A becoming brevity ... no compliments . . . the facts! An admirable program for any historian! I took... | |
 | Carl Van Doren, Mark Van Doren - 1925 - 432 strani
...biographer. The second, no less surely, is to maintain his own freedom of spirit. It is not his business to be complimentary ; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them." Strachey, true to his profession, took pains to understand himself as well as the people whose lives... | |
 | Montgomery Belgion - 1950 - 312 strani
...claimed instead to preserve ... a becoming brevity, ... to maintain his own freedom of spirit, ... to lay bare the facts of some cases, as I understand...dispassionately, impartially, and without ulterior intentions. The claim had an agreeable speciousness. On turning from the preface to the narratives that followed,... | |
 | Jerome Hamilton Buckley - 1989 - 246 strani
...What is puzzling in Strachey's preface is his idealization of impartiality. "It is [the biographer's] business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he...dispassionately, impartially and without ulterior intentions." But anyone who has read so much as a paragraph of Strachey's masterpiece knows that what makes it the... | |
 | Steve Weinberg - 1992 - 276 strani
...Pathography Strachey said in the preface's final paragraph that it is not the biographer's business "to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare...dispassionately, impartially, and without ulterior intentions." Strachey was saying that a biography belongs to the author, not to the subject. His approach fit well... | |
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