Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Page 42
... look after your horse , for he handles a curry - comb as naturally as a young scrivener does a pen and ink . He also looks with a keen eye at the neglected commercial possibilities of two Derbyshire villages : Entring upon Brassington ...
... look after your horse , for he handles a curry - comb as naturally as a young scrivener does a pen and ink . He also looks with a keen eye at the neglected commercial possibilities of two Derbyshire villages : Entring upon Brassington ...
Page 153
... look at the eyes of another person , or the habitual expres- sion of that person which seems to centre in the eyes . He is not necessarily being sentimental . It is as plain as print that we all judge others by means of a series of ...
... look at the eyes of another person , or the habitual expres- sion of that person which seems to centre in the eyes . He is not necessarily being sentimental . It is as plain as print that we all judge others by means of a series of ...
Page 155
... look which I had only observed in Sherlock's when he was exerting his full powers " . From fiction to fact . Those eyes recall two descriptions of Coleridge . One , by De Quincey , says that " his eyes were large , and soft in their ...
... look which I had only observed in Sherlock's when he was exerting his full powers " . From fiction to fact . Those eyes recall two descriptions of Coleridge . One , by De Quincey , says that " his eyes were large , and soft in their ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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