Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... intellectually rich for a pound ; whereas new books cost much more and left them , often enough , as poor as they had ... intellectual tradition . They have now become stern champions of the classics . Since they share the modern love of ...
... intellectually rich for a pound ; whereas new books cost much more and left them , often enough , as poor as they had ... intellectual tradition . They have now become stern champions of the classics . Since they share the modern love of ...
Page 55
... intellectual , or an artist , is something horrible . He cannot talk , because if he is an intellectual he wishes either to bully or to say only what is first class , and if he is a non - intellectual he is so uneasy lest he should not ...
... intellectual , or an artist , is something horrible . He cannot talk , because if he is an intellectual he wishes either to bully or to say only what is first class , and if he is a non - intellectual he is so uneasy lest he should not ...
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... intellectual superiority , strength , ambition , and contempt for all who did not agree with them , they did their best to flay and lacerate humbugs , the authorities , Tory poets such as Wordsworth ( the attacks upon whom by Jeffrey ...
... intellectual superiority , strength , ambition , and contempt for all who did not agree with them , they did their best to flay and lacerate humbugs , the authorities , Tory poets such as Wordsworth ( the attacks upon whom by Jeffrey ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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