Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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Page 89
... readers to the works of the Father of English Poetry , in which they may find the treasures for themselves . 2. The Spirit of Shakspere WHO was the greatest poet ? who the greatest of all geniuses , born and bred on English soil ...
... readers to the works of the Father of English Poetry , in which they may find the treasures for themselves . 2. The Spirit of Shakspere WHO was the greatest poet ? who the greatest of all geniuses , born and bred on English soil ...
Page 180
... readers , so that those who have not enjoyed them may be guided into a new field of reading , which in these winter evenings , by a cosy fire , would be unalloyed pleasure . When the first instalments of The Autocrat appeared in The ...
... readers , so that those who have not enjoyed them may be guided into a new field of reading , which in these winter evenings , by a cosy fire , would be unalloyed pleasure . When the first instalments of The Autocrat appeared in The ...
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... readers of the softer sex ( and I hope I am favoured by not a few ) to devote an essay to a subject of paramount interest to them , namely , themselves . But my readers of the sterner sex need not turn away from my column with a fretful ...
... readers of the softer sex ( and I hope I am favoured by not a few ) to devote an essay to a subject of paramount interest to them , namely , themselves . But my readers of the sterner sex need not turn away from my column with a fretful ...
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