Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... gift of observation , the same or a similar range of experience . But Miss Austen had better luck than Miss Mitford . She was able to write for fun , as well as from superior genius . And she could create an imaginary world , whereas ...
... gift of observation , the same or a similar range of experience . But Miss Austen had better luck than Miss Mitford . She was able to write for fun , as well as from superior genius . And she could create an imaginary world , whereas ...
Page 54
... gift ; the stories he told were true , as well as circum- stantial , but one listened to them as if they came straight from that pine wood called Coilla Doraca , where there lived the two philoso- phers who married the Grey Woman of Dun ...
... gift ; the stories he told were true , as well as circum- stantial , but one listened to them as if they came straight from that pine wood called Coilla Doraca , where there lived the two philoso- phers who married the Grey Woman of Dun ...
Page 129
... gift . Harold Williams , who at his death was Foreign Editor of The Times , could sing Tipperary in Maori and speak fluently in over a score of languages . H. G. Wells , though mentally quicker than any other man I ever knew , was not ...
... gift . Harold Williams , who at his death was Foreign Editor of The Times , could sing Tipperary in Maori and speak fluently in over a score of languages . H. G. Wells , though mentally quicker than any other man I ever knew , was not ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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