Literary DistractionsSheed & Ward, 1958 - 232 pages |
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Page 57
... phrase , " Was she going to get away with it ? " Admirable ; it rings the bell . But was not this , too , perhaps a temptation ? The translator must always look fifty years ahead . 3 Not that you can really do that . Current English is ...
... phrase , " Was she going to get away with it ? " Admirable ; it rings the bell . But was not this , too , perhaps a temptation ? The translator must always look fifty years ahead . 3 Not that you can really do that . Current English is ...
Page 92
... phrase , and it applies to such a lot of other things besides ladies speaking in public - if it does apply to ladies speaking in public . Why did Johnson decry the Scots ? Was the antipathy a natural one ; or did he cultivate it ; and ...
... phrase , and it applies to such a lot of other things besides ladies speaking in public - if it does apply to ladies speaking in public . Why did Johnson decry the Scots ? Was the antipathy a natural one ; or did he cultivate it ; and ...
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... phrase recalls us to our original question , " Will Belloc be remembered as poet , or as a prose - writer ? " Probably as a prose - writer , for no better reason than that his verse output was , by comparison , so small . Ordinarily ...
... phrase recalls us to our original question , " Will Belloc be remembered as poet , or as a prose - writer ? " Probably as a prose - writer , for no better reason than that his verse output was , by comparison , so small . Ordinarily ...
Contents
THE GREEKS AT SEA | 1 |
GOING ON PILGRIMAGE | 21 |
ON ENGLISH TRANSLATION | 36 |
Copyright | |
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