Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and MagogHutchinson, 1952 - 174 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 18
Page 37
... wish to hear about . A good letter , therefore , has always been , and always should be , a mixture of the most carefree egotism and the most calculated unselfishness : " You want to know what concerns me " and " I know your nature , and ...
... wish to hear about . A good letter , therefore , has always been , and always should be , a mixture of the most carefree egotism and the most calculated unselfishness : " You want to know what concerns me " and " I know your nature , and ...
Page 57
... wishes to keep alive the interest of absent friends . Perhaps the journal - keeper has an exaggerated interest in ... wish us to believe ; and unless they , too , have kept diaries they tend to trust their unreliable memories . I am ...
... wishes to keep alive the interest of absent friends . Perhaps the journal - keeper has an exaggerated interest in ... wish us to believe ; and unless they , too , have kept diaries they tend to trust their unreliable memories . I am ...
Page 99
... wish to show how far short of our own high intellectual standards the Victorians fell , and in fact with reluctant admiration . A self- questioning age feels that the Victorian writers had an easier world to portray ; it does not wish ...
... wish to show how far short of our own high intellectual standards the Victorians fell , and in fact with reluctant admiration . A self- questioning age feels that the Victorian writers had an easier world to portray ; it does not wish ...
Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? | 9 |
FINISHING A BOOK | 45 |
THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS | 51 |
Copyright | |
19 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A. E. W. Mason admire American amusing Arnold Bennett asked became born Boswell Butler Byron called character Christmas classics Coleridge conversation critical Defoe delightful diary Dickens E. V. Lucas England English everything eyes fact familiar essay fashion father feel friends genius George Saintsbury gift go-cart H. M. TOMLINSON Hazlitt heart Hume Nisbet humour intellectual J. M. Barrie James Northcote Jane Austen Jerry Owen Johnson Journal knew known Lady Lamb language laugh learned letter-writers letters literary literature lived look Mary Mitford matter mind Mitford modern never novel novelist once perhaps person poems poetry poets political published re-read readers Robinson romance Saintsbury Scott sense slippers sometimes story style sure Sydney Smith talk tell Thackeray thing thought told Tomlinson true truth Turgenev Victorians Walpole William Hazlitt wish words Wordsworth write written wrote young author