Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 23
Page 32
... feel ; but I am open to conviction . .. • I feel WRITING A LETTER I BEGIN with a true story . 32 Londoner's Post.
... feel ; but I am open to conviction . .. • I feel WRITING A LETTER I BEGIN with a true story . 32 Londoner's Post.
Page 49
... feel extremely , exceedingly tired . I feel quite incapable of judging the book by any standard whatever . I pant for idleness and a cessa- tion of that emotional strain which is inseparable from novel- writing in the manner described ...
... feel extremely , exceedingly tired . I feel quite incapable of judging the book by any standard whatever . I pant for idleness and a cessa- tion of that emotional strain which is inseparable from novel- writing in the manner described ...
Page 91
... feel they've no need to do so . ” I do not accept her reason for the non - boastfulness of the English , which I regard as due to insularity and indifference to the opinions of any but members of their own family . But , as the saying ...
... feel they've no need to do so . ” I do not accept her reason for the non - boastfulness of the English , which I regard as due to insularity and indifference to the opinions of any but members of their own family . But , as the saying ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
25 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A. E. W. Mason admire American amusing Arnold Bennett asked became born Boswell Butler Byron called character Christmas classics Coleridge conversation critical Defoe delightful diary Dickens E. V. Lucas England English everything eyes fact familiar essay fashion father feel friends genius George Saintsbury gift go-cart H. M. TOMLINSON Hazlitt heart Hume Nisbet humour intellectual J. M. Barrie James Northcote Jane Austen Jerry Owen Johnson Journal knew known Lady Lamb language laugh learned letter-writers letters literary literature lived look Mary Mitford matter mind Mitford modern never novel novelist once perhaps person poems poetry poets political published re-read readers Robinson romance Saintsbury Scott sense slippers sometimes story style sure Sydney Smith talk tell Thackeray thing thought told Tomlinson true truth Turgenev Victorians Walpole William Hazlitt wish words Wordsworth write written wrote young author