Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 53
... seems to know . Whole books have been written about the wo- men in Shelley's life . At least one other committed suicide , perhaps because she was in love with Shel- ley , although that isn't certain . The poet's end is one of the ...
... seems to know . Whole books have been written about the wo- men in Shelley's life . At least one other committed suicide , perhaps because she was in love with Shel- ley , although that isn't certain . The poet's end is one of the ...
Page 93
... seems hand- somely acquitted of the charge of hypercritical meddling . - One is less certain about Fanny Stevenson . The prudent Fanny was not only ever - and - always on the side of priggish respectability , she was herself a writer of ...
... seems hand- somely acquitted of the charge of hypercritical meddling . - One is less certain about Fanny Stevenson . The prudent Fanny was not only ever - and - always on the side of priggish respectability , she was herself a writer of ...
Page 237
... seems more likely than the other island to have been the scene of the Grice Patersons ' singular adventure . I agree . And bearing in mind Doctor Johnson's quarrel with the forger , Macpherson , who wrote the epic poem , " Fingal ...
... seems more likely than the other island to have been the scene of the Grice Patersons ' singular adventure . I agree . And bearing in mind Doctor Johnson's quarrel with the forger , Macpherson , who wrote the epic poem , " Fingal ...
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