Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... learned from Bernard Shaw that parents were superannuated children ; from H. G. Wells that the dead languages had remained too long unburied ; and from Lytton Strachey that the Victorians , in particular , were figures of fun . War ...
... learned from Bernard Shaw that parents were superannuated children ; from H. G. Wells that the dead languages had remained too long unburied ; and from Lytton Strachey that the Victorians , in particular , were figures of fun . War ...
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... learned it thoroughly by the hard path of grammatical rule . And he had the sort of daring which leads a man to risk absurdity in order to make himself intelligible . He would never have raised his voice in English to a foreign waiter ...
... learned it thoroughly by the hard path of grammatical rule . And he had the sort of daring which leads a man to risk absurdity in order to make himself intelligible . He would never have raised his voice in English to a foreign waiter ...
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... learned linguist I knew in youth , who was proficient in every European language , wrote unreadably . I always saw him with some sinking of a buoyant heart , so learned was he , and so strictly did he observe , and expect others to ...
... learned linguist I knew in youth , who was proficient in every European language , wrote unreadably . I always saw him with some sinking of a buoyant heart , so learned was he , and so strictly did he observe , and expect others to ...
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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