Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 267William Blackwood, 1950 - England |
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Page 191
Talleyrand ' was much the better book to read , but infinitely the easier to write . By contrast Sir Duff's ' Sergeant Shakespeare ' is flimsy stuff . It has the air of a jeu d'esprit and little more . Perhaps he never meant it to be ...
Talleyrand ' was much the better book to read , but infinitely the easier to write . By contrast Sir Duff's ' Sergeant Shakespeare ' is flimsy stuff . It has the air of a jeu d'esprit and little more . Perhaps he never meant it to be ...
Page 391
We have never really got the better of it , and our tenniscourt is still a tangle of blukar , with several self sown trees growing on it nearly forty feet high . But the house had been repaired and painted . Two or three of our former ...
We have never really got the better of it , and our tenniscourt is still a tangle of blukar , with several self sown trees growing on it nearly forty feet high . But the house had been repaired and painted . Two or three of our former ...
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The ' Life ' is rather better than competent and something more than controversial . Naturally , perhaps , Brigadier Young gives a favourable answer to the two main questions that obviously arise : Was Rommel a good general , and was he ...
The ' Life ' is rather better than competent and something more than controversial . Naturally , perhaps , Brigadier Young gives a favourable answer to the two main questions that obviously arise : Was Rommel a good general , and was he ...
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