It comes back to me, the whole "job," as wonderfully amusing and delightfully difficult from the first; since amusement deeply abides, I think, in any artistic attempt the basis and groundwork of which are conscious of a particular firmness. On that hard fine floor the element of execution feels it may more or less confidently DANCE; in which case puzzling questions, sharp obstacles, dangers of detail, may come up for it by the dozen without breaking its heart or shaking its nerve. It is the difficulty produced by the loose foundation or the vague scheme that breaks the heart-when a luckless fatuity has over-persuaded an author of the "saving" virtue of treatment.

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	April 3, 2017
ISBN13	9781544611662
Publishers	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	386
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 20 mm · 512 g
Language	English

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