... It drives one almost to despair of English literature when one sees so extraordinary a study of English life as Butler's posthumous Way of All Flesh making so little impression that when, some years later, I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily... Essays on Modern Dramatists - Pągina 86per William Lyon Phelps - 1921 - 278 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| John Selden - 1892 - 634 pągines
...Major Barbara, "I produce plays in which Butler's extremely fresh, free and futurepiercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with nothing but vague cacklings about Ibsen and Nietzsche,"— and developed into the fully fledged philosophy of Back to Methuselah. So much for a sketch of the background;... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1908 - 364 pągines
...later, I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh, free, and future-piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with nothing but vague cacklings about Ibsen and Nietzsche. . . . Really, the English do not deserve to have great men." Mr. Birrell in a causeric published some... | |
| William Henry Davies - 1908 - 72 pągines
...later, I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh free and future piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with nothing but vague cacklings about Ibsen and Nietzsche." — Bernard Skate, in preface to Major Barbara. " Many will welcome a cheaper edition of the works... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1908 - 440 pągines
...years later, I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinary fresh free and future piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with nothing but vague cacklings about Ibsen and Nietzche." (Mr. BERNARD SHAW, in preface to " Major Barbara.") Erewhon New Edition. 324 pp. Cloth.... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1909 - 108 pągines
...later, I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh free and future piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with nothing but vague cacklings about Ibsen and Nietzsche." — Bernard Shaw, in preface to Major Barbara. " Many will welcome a cheaper edition of the works of... | |
| Bernard Shaw - 1913 - 172 pągines
...later, I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh, free and future-piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with nothing but vague...Nietzsche, and am only too thankful that they are not f about Alfred de Musset and Georges Sand. Really, •-/ the English do not deserve to have great men.... | |
| Samuel Butler, Henry Festing Jones - 1913 - 334 pągines
...later, I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh free and future piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with nothing but vague cacklings about Ibsen and Nietzsche." — Bernard Shaw, in preface to Major Barbara. " Many will welcome a cheaper edition of the works of... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1913 - 328 pągines
...later, I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh free and future piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with nothing but vague cacklings about Ibsen and Nietzsche." — Bernard Shaw, in preface to Major Barbara. " Many will welcome a cheaper edition of the works of... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1913 - 328 pągines
...later, I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh free and future piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with nothing but vague cacklings about Ibsen and Nietzsche." — Bernard Shaw, in preface to Major Barbara. " Many will welcome a cheaper edition of the works of... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1913 - 332 pągines
...later, I produce plays in which Butler's extraordinarily fresh free and future piercing suggestions have an obvious share, I am met with nothing but vague cacklings about Ibsen and Nietzsche."—BernardShatv, in preface to Major Barbara. " Many will welcome a cheaper edition of the... | |
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