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... lived a more intensely academic life . His home background had no- thing to offer him : he was a fastidious scholarly type , incon- gruously born into the Hogarthian world of commercial London . At 9 years old , however , he was sent to ...
... lived a more intensely academic life . His home background had no- thing to offer him : he was a fastidious scholarly type , incon- gruously born into the Hogarthian world of commercial London . At 9 years old , however , he was sent to ...
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... lived precariously by memory only . Some people I have known to come on foot for six or seven miles to record their tales , enjoy a smoke and a chat with the neighbours , and then cheerfully bid good - night and trudge home again . One ...
... lived precariously by memory only . Some people I have known to come on foot for six or seven miles to record their tales , enjoy a smoke and a chat with the neighbours , and then cheerfully bid good - night and trudge home again . One ...
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... lived and talked , as he had always lived and talked , in the main with men younger than himself , sharing with youth everything except youth's moods of dis- illusionment . He had lived through queer times , including the darkest years ...
... lived and talked , as he had always lived and talked , in the main with men younger than himself , sharing with youth everything except youth's moods of dis- illusionment . He had lived through queer times , including the darkest years ...
Contents
CORRESPONDING FELLOWS 1945 | 4 |
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir John Clapham | 12 |
THE POETRY OF THOMAS GRAY Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 43 |
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