Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 79
... never interrupts a loquacious person such as myself . But with a pen in his hand , and the wide world for his theme ... never devote your page , " he said fretfully , " to the influence of the Pleiades . You never refer to eighteenth ...
... never interrupts a loquacious person such as myself . But with a pen in his hand , and the wide world for his theme ... never devote your page , " he said fretfully , " to the influence of the Pleiades . You never refer to eighteenth ...
Page 108
... never read The Rise of the Dutch Republic . I have read ( because I found a copy in my furnished London flat ) Home ... never read a book by recent fashion's hero , Ronald Firbank ; and I have never read Spengler's Decline 108 Londoner's ...
... never read The Rise of the Dutch Republic . I have read ( because I found a copy in my furnished London flat ) Home ... never read a book by recent fashion's hero , Ronald Firbank ; and I have never read Spengler's Decline 108 Londoner's ...
Page 123
... never did quite come to the end of learning . I mention this fact , not because it is a discovery , but because it may encourage those now setting pens to paper for the first time . It seems to me , if I may judge by the correspondence ...
... never did quite come to the end of learning . I mention this fact , not because it is a discovery , but because it may encourage those now setting pens to paper for the first time . It seems to me , if I may judge by the correspondence ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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