Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 70
... knew not where . In the end it fell into the hands of Frank Harris , who pretended that Thomas told him the whole terrible story of an unconsummated marriage . Harris , according to his own rather derisive biographers , could not ...
... knew not where . In the end it fell into the hands of Frank Harris , who pretended that Thomas told him the whole terrible story of an unconsummated marriage . Harris , according to his own rather derisive biographers , could not ...
Page 131
... knew all tongues he lacked my untutored eloquence . In fact , he could not write English at all ! Let us forget this colossal innocence . It has just occurred to me that Greek writers of the classical age knew no language but their own ...
... knew all tongues he lacked my untutored eloquence . In fact , he could not write English at all ! Let us forget this colossal innocence . It has just occurred to me that Greek writers of the classical age knew no language but their own ...
Page 156
... knew of , but I saw everything , even to the prospect of a church upon his china inkstand , as I sat down— and this , too , was a faculty confirmed in me in the old Micawber times . Such observation is always vivid ; in the author ...
... knew of , but I saw everything , even to the prospect of a church upon his china inkstand , as I sat down— and this , too , was a faculty confirmed in me in the old Micawber times . Such observation is always vivid ; in the author ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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