The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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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- man . But when I went to Germany I discovered that the Germans were just as proud of being Germans as I was proud of being English . I heard them say that the English did not understand music and that Shakespeare was only ...
... English- man . But when I went to Germany I discovered that the Germans were just as proud of being Germans as I was proud of being English . I heard them say that the English did not understand music and that Shakespeare was only ...
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