Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 85
... they are triumphant . Let me end , however , by remarking once again that for me the best speakers are the great of other days . I really want to know how they expressed themselves . For this reason I draw the 85 Conversations in Print.
... they are triumphant . Let me end , however , by remarking once again that for me the best speakers are the great of other days . I really want to know how they expressed themselves . For this reason I draw the 85 Conversations in Print.
Page 166
... expressed better than anybody hitherto had done — that is to say , in an idiom less local , more universal - the romanticism of his age . In English literature alone he thrust aside the tamer poesies of Rogers , Moore , Campbell ...
... expressed better than anybody hitherto had done — that is to say , in an idiom less local , more universal - the romanticism of his age . In English literature alone he thrust aside the tamer poesies of Rogers , Moore , Campbell ...
Page 167
... expressed by so wise an historian as Halevy ; how much more strongly was it held by Byron's young contemporaries abroad , who felt themselves to be chained by tyrannies , national , governmental , family , and financial . He spoke for ...
... expressed by so wise an historian as Halevy ; how much more strongly was it held by Byron's young contemporaries abroad , who felt themselves to be chained by tyrannies , national , governmental , family , and financial . He spoke for ...
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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