Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 19
... faces , the evil faces , and the jovial faces , and reading behind the faces the stories of their owners ' lives . This was the material from which all his books were drawn . But there was something more . His sense of teeming life ...
... faces , the evil faces , and the jovial faces , and reading behind the faces the stories of their owners ' lives . This was the material from which all his books were drawn . But there was something more . His sense of teeming life ...
Page 53
... face to face among his hearers , he related , invented , caricatured , and imitated nearly all the men he had ever known . He was a great lampooner , very quick in retort , and a wonderful entertainer . I should say he was best in ...
... face to face among his hearers , he related , invented , caricatured , and imitated nearly all the men he had ever known . He was a great lampooner , very quick in retort , and a wonderful entertainer . I should say he was best in ...
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... Face of the Earth , it is , by way of the Chesil Bank and a North Devon Estuary , Spain . But wherever he goes Tomlinson takes the wealth of the Indies with him . He sees ; he reflects ; he describes . More than all , he contemplates ...
... Face of the Earth , it is , by way of the Chesil Bank and a North Devon Estuary , Spain . But wherever he goes Tomlinson takes the wealth of the Indies with him . He sees ; he reflects ; he describes . More than all , he contemplates ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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