Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 28
... become a labourer or a mechanic , and these are the only people whose tenure of independence is not precarious . As there was nothing else he could do , Butler in the manner of those expansive days was packed off to New Zealand to become ...
... become a labourer or a mechanic , and these are the only people whose tenure of independence is not precarious . As there was nothing else he could do , Butler in the manner of those expansive days was packed off to New Zealand to become ...
Page 83
... become ; it was subjected to belittlement by all who despised Johnson or Boswell or both . Only as the years passed was it read and re - read , to become - still lesser degree than it is now , when the life of the eighteenth century is ...
... become ; it was subjected to belittlement by all who despised Johnson or Boswell or both . Only as the years passed was it read and re - read , to become - still lesser degree than it is now , when the life of the eighteenth century is ...
Page 100
... become the father of an illegitimate child . Instantly , critical approach to his poetry changed . He was no longer immaculate ; was he even a good poet ? Only of late have such writers as Lascelles Abercrombie and Edith Batho ...
... become the father of an illegitimate child . Instantly , critical approach to his poetry changed . He was no longer immaculate ; was he even a good poet ? Only of late have such writers as Lascelles Abercrombie and Edith Batho ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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