Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 53
... heard me preach ? " " I never , " answered Lamb , " heard you do anything else ! " Lamb , obviously , was in his own way a master . He punned , which may be a tiresome habit ; but while stammering he enriched every company he joined or ...
... heard me preach ? " " I never , " answered Lamb , " heard you do anything else ! " Lamb , obviously , was in his own way a master . He punned , which may be a tiresome habit ; but while stammering he enriched every company he joined or ...
Page 84
... heard in another . His memory , in fact , was as good as Boswell's ; and Wordsworth and Southey were angry when he quoted in print poems heard perhaps only once , long ago , which they would have preferred forgotten . Coleridge , also ...
... heard in another . His memory , in fact , was as good as Boswell's ; and Wordsworth and Southey were angry when he quoted in print poems heard perhaps only once , long ago , which they would have preferred forgotten . Coleridge , also ...
Page 119
... heard of bushrangers , it had been copied often enough in what were then known as " penny dreadfuls " or , more curtly , " bloods " . Therefore Indian yells ceased to be heard in Highgate Woods . We might still say , in the privacy of ...
... heard of bushrangers , it had been copied often enough in what were then known as " penny dreadfuls " or , more curtly , " bloods " . Therefore Indian yells ceased to be heard in Highgate Woods . We might still say , in the privacy of ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
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