Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 129
... language by ear . Jo Davidson , the sculptor , had a similar gift . Harold Williams , who at his death was Foreign Editor of The Times , could sing Tipperary in Maori and speak fluently in over a score of languages . H. G. Wells ...
... language by ear . Jo Davidson , the sculptor , had a similar gift . Harold Williams , who at his death was Foreign Editor of The Times , could sing Tipperary in Maori and speak fluently in over a score of languages . H. G. Wells ...
Page 130
... language ; he learned it thoroughly by the hard path of grammatical rule . And he had the sort of daring which leads a man to risk absurdity in order to make himself intelligible . He would never have raised his voice in English to a ...
... language ; he learned it thoroughly by the hard path of grammatical rule . And he had the sort of daring which leads a man to risk absurdity in order to make himself intelligible . He would never have raised his voice in English to a ...
Page 131
... language it is to be like Shakespeare , with his " small Latin and less Greek " . A few mistakes may be forgiven one who has something to say , who has an ear , or who has genius . In any case , those famous words of Ben Jonson to ...
... language it is to be like Shakespeare , with his " small Latin and less Greek " . A few mistakes may be forgiven one who has something to say , who has an ear , or who has genius . In any case , those famous words of Ben Jonson to ...
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
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