Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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Letters to Gog and Magog Frank Swinnerton. of life and manners is astonishing . These passages , all of which I should ... manner of Robinson Crusoe . True , the book is in a sense reporting . Defoe may have used , in preparing it , some ...
Letters to Gog and Magog Frank Swinnerton. of life and manners is astonishing . These passages , all of which I should ... manner of Robinson Crusoe . True , the book is in a sense reporting . Defoe may have used , in preparing it , some ...
Page 137
... manners of their age in The Tatler , The Spectator , and other periodical writings . The familiarity remained ; the ... manner . I must admit that they sometimes abandoned slippers and walked about the town in fashionable boots . They ...
... manners of their age in The Tatler , The Spectator , and other periodical writings . The familiarity remained ; the ... manner . I must admit that they sometimes abandoned slippers and walked about the town in fashionable boots . They ...
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Letters to Gog and Magog Frank Swinnerton. former Master refer to his lack of manners ( the word used by Scott in his diary had been " manner " ) ; tried to reform American habits by means of over - simple parables and over - sharp ...
Letters to Gog and Magog Frank Swinnerton. former Master refer to his lack of manners ( the word used by Scott in his diary had been " manner " ) ; tried to reform American habits by means of over - simple parables and over - sharp ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
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