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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... word doesn't exist it's because we haven't known the need for it . ( I rather regret embarking on this subject . I fear I have failed words . ) Yet if words can express everything , what is music , that lexiconless language , for ? In ...
... word doesn't exist it's because we haven't known the need for it . ( I rather regret embarking on this subject . I fear I have failed words . ) Yet if words can express everything , what is music , that lexiconless language , for ? In ...
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... words were all before them , which to choose./ Their tongues now turned to English , / With its colonies of twangs./ And they were down to earth ' : thus a naïve chauvinist's view of post - Edenic discourse . Naïve isn't the word for ...
... words were all before them , which to choose./ Their tongues now turned to English , / With its colonies of twangs./ And they were down to earth ' : thus a naïve chauvinist's view of post - Edenic discourse . Naïve isn't the word for ...
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... word's ignominious association has evaporated ; in fact the Concise Oxford Dictionary's second definition describes it as ' poet . dark , dusky ' – with , quite likely , Shakespeare's use of the word in the forefront of the ...
... word's ignominious association has evaporated ; in fact the Concise Oxford Dictionary's second definition describes it as ' poet . dark , dusky ' – with , quite likely , Shakespeare's use of the word in the forefront of the ...
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