Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Letters to Gog and Magog Frank Swinnerton. WRITING A LETTER I BEGIN with a true story . Some weeks ago an elderly man received a letter from a young relative who had just gone to one of the older universities ; and this letter was so ...
Letters to Gog and Magog Frank Swinnerton. WRITING A LETTER I BEGIN with a true story . Some weeks ago an elderly man received a letter from a young relative who had just gone to one of the older universities ; and this letter was so ...
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... letters , which are in a class of their own . Nor , though her youthful letters of wooing are extraordinary and some later descrip- tive and self - exculpatory efforts very brilliant , do I include Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Mrs ...
... letters , which are in a class of their own . Nor , though her youthful letters of wooing are extraordinary and some later descrip- tive and self - exculpatory efforts very brilliant , do I include Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Mrs ...
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... letter written merely to amuse a comparative stranger is a performance ; but a letter written to amuse a person one loves is quicksilver . What makes Dickens's letters less than excellent is that while they are the vivid product of an ...
... letter written merely to amuse a comparative stranger is a performance ; but a letter written to amuse a person one loves is quicksilver . What makes Dickens's letters less than excellent is that while they are the vivid product of an ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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