Punch, Volume 207Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1944 - Caricatures and cartoons |
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Page 134
... English so self - con- scious , or so much encour- aged to be , and " Aren't we English charmingly absurd ! " appears to be the message of nearly every British picture . Our capacity for self - approval is , to be sure , infinite ;, but ...
... English so self - con- scious , or so much encour- aged to be , and " Aren't we English charmingly absurd ! " appears to be the message of nearly every British picture . Our capacity for self - approval is , to be sure , infinite ;, but ...
Page 146
... English Life THE Whig interpretation of English history , as proclaimed by the full - lunged Macaulay , was bound in due course to be contested both from the right and the left , and accordingly the last forty years have resounded with ...
... English Life THE Whig interpretation of English history , as proclaimed by the full - lunged Macaulay , was bound in due course to be contested both from the right and the left , and accordingly the last forty years have resounded with ...
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... English Poetry ( CHATTO AND WINDUS , 21 / - ) Sir HERBERT GRIERSON , late Professor of English Literature in Edinburgh University , and Dr. J. C. SMITH have produced a survey of our poetry from Anglo- Saxon times down to 1939. Nothing ...
... English Poetry ( CHATTO AND WINDUS , 21 / - ) Sir HERBERT GRIERSON , late Professor of English Literature in Edinburgh University , and Dr. J. C. SMITH have produced a survey of our poetry from Anglo- Saxon times down to 1939. Nothing ...
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