Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 53
... Lamb , " heard you do anything else ! " Lamb , obviously , was in his own way a master . He punned , which may be a tiresome habit ; but while stammering he enriched every company he joined or received . Hazlitt did not stammer ; he ...
... Lamb , " heard you do anything else ! " Lamb , obviously , was in his own way a master . He punned , which may be a tiresome habit ; but while stammering he enriched every company he joined or received . Hazlitt did not stammer ; he ...
Page 137
... Lamb , would have been encouraged to become Elia if he had not first read Goldsmith . You must remember that Lamb was born in the Temple , and that Mary Lamb had seen Goldsmith walking there in the early years of her life . And Lamb was ...
... Lamb , would have been encouraged to become Elia if he had not first read Goldsmith . You must remember that Lamb was born in the Temple , and that Mary Lamb had seen Goldsmith walking there in the early years of her life . And Lamb was ...
Page 138
... Lamb's model rather than Hazlitt's own that subsequent writers of the essay have formed themselves . I do not want to belittle Hazlitt ; it is too often done . He was a great essayist . His range is wider than Lamb's , and at his best ...
... Lamb's model rather than Hazlitt's own that subsequent writers of the essay have formed themselves . I do not want to belittle Hazlitt ; it is too often done . He was a great essayist . His range is wider than Lamb's , and at his best ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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