Fisher's Ghost, and Other EssaysF.W. Cheshire, 1950 - 208 pages |
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Page 17
... wrote , " Stretching herself with feline . grace , and emitting those sounds immemorially connected with satisfaction , Grimalkin lay on a rug whose richly variegated pattern spoke eloquently of the Orient and all the wonders of the ...
... wrote , " Stretching herself with feline . grace , and emitting those sounds immemorially connected with satisfaction , Grimalkin lay on a rug whose richly variegated pattern spoke eloquently of the Orient and all the wonders of the ...
Page 139
... wrote a letter to Edmund Burke who answered him and made Dodsley publish The Library . Burke took Crabbe to his house where he corrected The Village . Burke , though busy , appreciated the unknown poet . In the midst of political ...
... wrote a letter to Edmund Burke who answered him and made Dodsley publish The Library . Burke took Crabbe to his house where he corrected The Village . Burke , though busy , appreciated the unknown poet . In the midst of political ...
Page 190
... wrote , " Johnson is dead . Let us go on to the next best - there is nobody ; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson . " - Samuel Johnson's father was a Lichfield bookseller who died insolvent in 1731 , when Johnson left ...
... wrote , " Johnson is dead . Let us go on to the next best - there is nobody ; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson . " - Samuel Johnson's father was a Lichfield bookseller who died insolvent in 1731 , when Johnson left ...
Contents
FISHERS GHOSTTWO SIDELIGHTS | 1 |
THAT WORD AGAIN | 16 |
THE ESSENTIAL MURDOCH | 33 |
Copyright | |
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