Campos ocultos
Livros Livros
" 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 - Página 283
1920
Visualização completa - Sobre este livro

Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold ...

Lytton Strachey - 1918 - 392 páginas
...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...
Visualização completa - Sobre este livro

Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold ...

Lytton Strachey - 1918 - 412 páginas
...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...
Visualização completa - Sobre este livro

Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold ...

Lytton Strachey - 1918 - 392 páginas
...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...
Visualização completa - Sobre este livro

Current Opinion, Volume 65

Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Frank Crane - 1918 - 468 páginas
...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...
Visualização completa - Sobre este livro

Books and Their Writers

Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1920 - 358 páginas
...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...
Visualização completa - Sobre este livro

The Silent Force: Scenes from the Life of the Mounted Police of Canada

Thomas Morris Longstreth - 1927 - 476 páginas
...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...
Visualização completa - Sobre este livro

American and British Literature Since 1890

Carl Van Doren, Mark Van Doren - 1925 - 432 páginas
...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...
Visualização completa - Sobre este livro

Reading for Profit

Montgomery Belgion - 1950 - 312 páginas
...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,...
Visualização completa - Sobre este livro

Nineteenth-Century Lives

Jerome Hamilton Buckley - 1989 - 246 páginas
...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...
Visualização parcial - Sobre este livro

Telling the Untold Story: How Investigative Reporters are Changing the Craft ...

Steve Weinberg - 1992 - 276 páginas
...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...
Visualização parcial - Sobre este livro




  1. Minha biblioteca
  2. Ajuda
  3. Pesquisa de livros avançada
  4. Download do ePub
  5. Download do PDF