Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 73
... called " the second man ” . This was something new in English literature . It was the product of gentility , timidity , causticity , and what , before the days of amazons , would have been called womanishness . Thackeray was not , as so ...
... called " the second man ” . This was something new in English literature . It was the product of gentility , timidity , causticity , and what , before the days of amazons , would have been called womanishness . Thackeray was not , as so ...
Page 87
... called " The English Laugh " . True , he was speaking to a society called " The English Association " , and perhaps could do no less for our national pride ? But I gladly summon Sir Alan to my aid , because I have been wondering what I ...
... called " The English Laugh " . True , he was speaking to a society called " The English Association " , and perhaps could do no less for our national pride ? But I gladly summon Sir Alan to my aid , because I have been wondering what I ...
Page 108
... called the intellectual stamina for pro- longed application , I take more than a week to relish what , as a boy , I should have mastered in a night . And sometimes , with gloom , I appreciate the fact that , like Arnold Bennett , I have ...
... called the intellectual stamina for pro- longed application , I take more than a week to relish what , as a boy , I should have mastered in a night . And sometimes , with gloom , I appreciate the fact that , like Arnold Bennett , I have ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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