The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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... English clergyman at the Church attached to the Embassy . His method of teaching me English was to make me read aloud the police - court news in The Standard and I can still remember the horror with which I read the ghastly details of a ...
... English clergyman at the Church attached to the Embassy . His method of teaching me English was to make me read aloud the police - court news in The Standard and I can still remember the horror with which I read the ghastly details of a ...
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... English soil . To my mind King James's Bible has been a very harmful influence on English prose . I am not so stupid as to deny its great beauty . It is majestical . But the Bible is an oriental book . Its alien imagery has nothing to ...
... English soil . To my mind King James's Bible has been a very harmful influence on English prose . I am not so stupid as to deny its great beauty . It is majestical . But the Bible is an oriental book . Its alien imagery has nothing to ...
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... English prose , but have found it hard to profit by them ; for the most part they are vague , unduly theoretical , and often scolding . But you cannot say this of Fowler's Dictionary of English Usage . It is a valuable work . I do not ...
... English prose , but have found it hard to profit by them ; for the most part they are vague , unduly theoretical , and often scolding . But you cannot say this of Fowler's Dictionary of English Usage . It is a valuable work . I do not ...
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