Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... laugh ; they are made to hope - which in these days is not a common sensation . They are mesmerized because it was ... laughed , sighed , and ridiculed ; and passed on to amusing parody of Ivanhoe , or a picture of the same or other ...
... laugh ; they are made to hope - which in these days is not a common sensation . They are mesmerized because it was ... laughed , sighed , and ridiculed ; and passed on to amusing parody of Ivanhoe , or a picture of the same or other ...
Page 87
... Laugh " . True , he was speaking to a society called " The English Association " , and perhaps could do no less for ... Laughter and Freud's Wit and its relation to the Unconscious ; and it then seemed to me that very learned gentlemen ...
... Laugh " . True , he was speaking to a society called " The English Association " , and perhaps could do no less for ... Laughter and Freud's Wit and its relation to the Unconscious ; and it then seemed to me that very learned gentlemen ...
Page 151
... laugh at this if you will . It is not our modern attitude . If you laugh , do so because Henry Seton Merriman is a little over - serious , not because his values , which were those of the eighteen - eighties , and near enough to ...
... laugh at this if you will . It is not our modern attitude . If you laugh , do so because Henry Seton Merriman is a little over - serious , not because his values , which were those of the eighteen - eighties , and near enough to ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
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