 Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music, or pictures, or architecture, or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.  The Way of All Flesh - Page 62by Samuel Butler - 1908 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Percival Presland Howe - 1913 - 288 pages
...personality of the author. This, in fact, is the beginning of criticism. WILDE : A Letter on " Dorian Gray ' Every man's work, whether it be literature or music...or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. BUTLER: "The Way of All Flesh " Hfe NOTE THEOUGHOUT this book a particular point of view has been adhered... | |
 | John Laird - 1917 - 402 pages
...is known of the career of Shakespeare ? Nor is the reason very far to seek. As Samuel Butler says, ' Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music,...clearly will his character appear in spite of him.' l That is the truth unless, perhaps, such sciences as mathematics or physics are excepted. It may be... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - 1920 - 268 pages
...wholly true, and happily is becoming less and less true. ' Every man's work,' it has been well urged,1 ' whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture...clearly will his character appear in spite of him.' In this sense at least it might very well be maintained that we can know Shakespeare better than we... | |
 | 1928 - 598 pages
...selfish politics is a minor matter compared with the harm done by selfish business. — Durant Drake. Every man's work, whether it be literature or music...clearly will his character appear in spite of him. — Samuel Butler. That woman whom the gods mark for destruction, they first make frank. — Lillian... | |
 | George Thomas White Patrick - 1924 - 490 pages
...that is known of the career of Shakespeare? Nor is the reason very far to seek. As Samuel Butler says, "Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music,...clearly will his character appear in spite of him." ... It may be a rare thing for the artist to be more interesting than the whole body of his work, but... | |
 | George Thomas White Patrick - 1924 - 486 pages
...that is known of the career of Shakespeare? Nor is the reason very far to seek. As Samuel Butler says, "Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music,...clearly will his character appear in spite of him." ... It may be a rare thing for the artist to be more interesting than the whole body of his work, but... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 pages
...president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say "How's the president':'" — Will Rogers Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is alwavs a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler The gambling known is business looks with austere disfavor... | |
 | Margretta M. Styles, Patricia Moccia - 1993 - 376 pages
...Masson, V. (1987, March). Maggie Jones. Journal of Christian Nursing, 22-24. Ill ON WOMEN AND WORK Every man's work, whether it be literature or music...or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903 Working and women's work are two concepts central to nursing.... | |
 | Helen Granat - 1998 - 182 pages
...of reaching for immortality. THOMAS JEFFERSON Every man's work, whether it be literature, or musk, or pictures, or architecture, or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. SAMUEL BUTLER A few geniuses are able to achieve immortality in the creation of an unforgettable symphony,... | |
 | Francis Edward Abernethy, Carolyn Fiedler Satterwhite - 1992 - 340 pages
...feel selfishly reluctant to let him go. By applying Samuel Butler's dictum, that 'Every man's work ... is always a portrait of himself and the more he tries...clearly will his character appear in spite of him,' we could readily arrive at the main lines of Wilson Hudson's involuntary self-portrait. We would see... | |
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