Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
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... present , " announced her mother , three years later , " over head and ears in parties . We are going this evening to a large supper party at Dr Douglas's , twenty at least . To - morrow Mrs Bradley and Mrs Terry play quadrille here ...
... present , " announced her mother , three years later , " over head and ears in parties . We are going this evening to a large supper party at Dr Douglas's , twenty at least . To - morrow Mrs Bradley and Mrs Terry play quadrille here ...
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... present with me , not only in regard to Pauli , the Darwins , and my father , but also in regard to my ever - present anxiety about money . Only when his father died , in 1886 , was the anxiety dispelled for ever . But there were other ...
... present with me , not only in regard to Pauli , the Darwins , and my father , but also in regard to my ever - present anxiety about money . Only when his father died , in 1886 , was the anxiety dispelled for ever . But there were other ...
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... interested chiefly in matters demanding faculties denied to all but a few ; but how well worth listening to ! I should have liked above all things to be present at Lamb's when such men were talking . I 53 The Conversation of Authors.
... interested chiefly in matters demanding faculties denied to all but a few ; but how well worth listening to ! I should have liked above all things to be present at Lamb's when such men were talking . I 53 The Conversation of Authors.
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
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