Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 34
... seems full , and everything as usual . Yours sincerely . No modern communication , generally on a picture postcard , could be worse than that ! I have noticed - but I find E. V. Lucas in the World's Classics Cowper noticing it before I ...
... seems full , and everything as usual . Yours sincerely . No modern communication , generally on a picture postcard , could be worse than that ! I have noticed - but I find E. V. Lucas in the World's Classics Cowper noticing it before I ...
Page 72
... seems worth while to remember that although physically big- framed he had a short life , and was probably not constitutionally robust . The father died when this timid boy , born in India , was four . Later , Thackeray was sent to ...
... seems worth while to remember that although physically big- framed he had a short life , and was probably not constitutionally robust . The father died when this timid boy , born in India , was four . Later , Thackeray was sent to ...
Page 81
... seems to me that this grave student may be mistaken . But it is true that conversations in novels , like conver- sations in real life , have all the possibilities of charm and pro- fundity . They contain , or should contain , the sounds ...
... seems to me that this grave student may be mistaken . But it is true that conversations in novels , like conver- sations in real life , have all the possibilities of charm and pro- fundity . They contain , or should contain , the sounds ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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