Injury Time: A MemoirPimlico, 2003 - 183 Seiten D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touches to this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and the English language. |
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... sense of religion , or the empty space that religion has left behind . The brilliantly funny contrasts in Paradise Illustrated cut both ways . The myths are antiquated , the shallow colloquial idiom points up what has been lost ...
... sense of religion , or the empty space that religion has left behind . The brilliantly funny contrasts in Paradise Illustrated cut both ways . The myths are antiquated , the shallow colloquial idiom points up what has been lost ...
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... sense of morals , especially when attended with a splenetic temper , is apt to give a man a disgust of the world ' . However , he was of the opinion that ' the sentiments of those , who are inclined to think favourably of mankind , are ...
... sense of morals , especially when attended with a splenetic temper , is apt to give a man a disgust of the world ' . However , he was of the opinion that ' the sentiments of those , who are inclined to think favourably of mankind , are ...
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... sense ; it rises in every line ' , ' there are no lazy intervals ' : ' If this be called obscurity , let it be remembered that it is such an obscurity as is a compliment to the reader ; not that vicious obscurity , which proceeds from a ...
... sense ; it rises in every line ' , ' there are no lazy intervals ' : ' If this be called obscurity , let it be remembered that it is such an obscurity as is a compliment to the reader ; not that vicious obscurity , which proceeds from a ...
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