Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Letters to Gog and Magog Frank Swinnerton. they expressed themselves . For this reason I draw the utmost possible refreshment from Drummond , Spence , Boswell , Haydon , and - in the Conversations of James Northcote - Hazlitt . Would ...
Letters to Gog and Magog Frank Swinnerton. they expressed themselves . For this reason I draw the utmost possible refreshment from Drummond , Spence , Boswell , Haydon , and - in the Conversations of James Northcote - Hazlitt . Would ...
Page 90
... expressed . That conception is , as it were , contra - didactic . From Chaucer onwards , English writers of comedy have allowed human nature its qualities and defects ; they have , or so it seems to me , assimilated laughter to patience ...
... expressed . That conception is , as it were , contra - didactic . From Chaucer onwards , English writers of comedy have allowed human nature its qualities and defects ; they have , or so it seems to me , assimilated laughter to patience ...
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... expressed one's thoughts as if , in slippers over the fire , one chatted with friends , one was less likely to be punished for intellectual incendiarism . That was the origin of the deceptive artlessness of Montaigne's manner . He said ...
... expressed one's thoughts as if , in slippers over the fire , one chatted with friends , one was less likely to be punished for intellectual incendiarism . That was the origin of the deceptive artlessness of Montaigne's manner . He said ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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