Essays by Divers Hands: Being the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United KingdomOxford University Press, 1972 |
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... Mandarin English ; and the term is unusually apt , because this was the style of a ruling minority , formed by the study of dead languages , and used in the conduct of public affairs . Well , Mandarins are not what they were , in China ...
... Mandarin English ; and the term is unusually apt , because this was the style of a ruling minority , formed by the study of dead languages , and used in the conduct of public affairs . Well , Mandarins are not what they were , in China ...
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... Mandarin , as it was with Carlyle , and more recently with Hemingway , and the result may be a gain in vitality . ( Although when Hemingway wanted to achieve solemn pathos , as at certain points in For Whom the Bell Tolls , he reverted ...
... Mandarin , as it was with Carlyle , and more recently with Hemingway , and the result may be a gain in vitality . ( Although when Hemingway wanted to achieve solemn pathos , as at certain points in For Whom the Bell Tolls , he reverted ...
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... Mandarin prose can give as much delight as the prose of Jeremy Taylor , Sir Thomas Browne , or the translators of the Authorized Version ; but , at their best , they were not writing prose at all , but a kind of poetry without metre ...
... Mandarin prose can give as much delight as the prose of Jeremy Taylor , Sir Thomas Browne , or the translators of the Authorized Version ; but , at their best , they were not writing prose at all , but a kind of poetry without metre ...
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Giff Edmonds Memorial Lecture 1971 | 17 |
Marie Stopes Memorial Lecture 1970 | 47 |
Don Carlos Coloma Memorial Lecture 1971 | 63 |
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