English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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Pagina 339
... says , was " wholly a man of action , with speech subserv- ient there - to , " " capable of blazing into whirlwinds when need- ful , " but " with the most open contempt for clatter . " Carlyle's mother was pious and kindly ; she learned ...
... says , was " wholly a man of action , with speech subserv- ient there - to , " " capable of blazing into whirlwinds when need- ful , " but " with the most open contempt for clatter . " Carlyle's mother was pious and kindly ; she learned ...
Pagina 401
... say anything to get attention . Now he is generally recognized as meaning what he says , and as saying it with extraordinary cleverness and force . Shaw was born in Ireland of English Protestant stock . He says he never learned anything ...
... say anything to get attention . Now he is generally recognized as meaning what he says , and as saying it with extraordinary cleverness and force . Shaw was born in Ireland of English Protestant stock . He says he never learned anything ...
Pagina 402
... says , " is to tell the truth ; it is the funniest joke in the world . " Again , he has said that he tries to say what he has to say in the most irritating manner pos- sible , as the only way to start people thinking . Among his most ...
... says , " is to tell the truth ; it is the funniest joke in the world . " Again , he has said that he tries to say what he has to say in the most irritating manner pos- sible , as the only way to start people thinking . Among his most ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
Copyright | |
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