The Frank Muir Book: An Irreverent Companion to Social HistoryPearson Education New Zealand Limited, 1976 - 372 pages |
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Page 142
... literary club : An ugly , affected , disgusting fellow ... poisons the literary club to me ... I class him among infidel wasps and venomous insects . James Boswell ( 1740-1795 ) Letters to Temple Boswell's usual reaction to anybody whom ...
... literary club : An ugly , affected , disgusting fellow ... poisons the literary club to me ... I class him among infidel wasps and venomous insects . James Boswell ( 1740-1795 ) Letters to Temple Boswell's usual reaction to anybody whom ...
Page 170
... literary scene : the literary agent : Mrs. Morland very wittily defined an agent as someone whom you pay to make bad blood between yourself and your publisher . Angela Thirkell ( 1890–1961 ) Pomfret Towers Miss Thirkell , without ...
... literary scene : the literary agent : Mrs. Morland very wittily defined an agent as someone whom you pay to make bad blood between yourself and your publisher . Angela Thirkell ( 1890–1961 ) Pomfret Towers Miss Thirkell , without ...
Page 173
... literary movements were popular : A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially . George Moore ( 1852-1933 ) The Bloomsbury group , which was more a group of intellectual ...
... literary movements were popular : A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other cordially . George Moore ( 1852-1933 ) The Bloomsbury group , which was more a group of intellectual ...
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