Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 46
... fact . All authors are deluded about their own talent . If they are modest authors , they underrate it and are pleasantly surprised to receive any praise at all . If they are arrogant authors everything increases their arrogance . They ...
... fact . All authors are deluded about their own talent . If they are modest authors , they underrate it and are pleasantly surprised to receive any praise at all . If they are arrogant authors everything increases their arrogance . They ...
Page 57
... facts and occur- rences . Almost certainly the autobiographer wishes to get in first with posterity . But whether what is produced is a diary , or a collection of letters , or a journal , or an ... fact that ( in 57 DIARIES AND JOURNALS.
... facts and occur- rences . Almost certainly the autobiographer wishes to get in first with posterity . But whether what is produced is a diary , or a collection of letters , or a journal , or an ... fact that ( in 57 DIARIES AND JOURNALS.
Page 66
... fact that current poetry is bad , but from the fact that it is not read . Grand committees are being formed to cultivate a taste for it ; the B.B.C. is being chivvied to give more and more attention to it ; some poets spend so much time ...
... fact that current poetry is bad , but from the fact that it is not read . Grand committees are being formed to cultivate a taste for it ; the B.B.C. is being chivvied to give more and more attention to it ; some poets spend so much time ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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