The National Review, Volume 129W.H. Allen, 1947 - English literature |
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Page 159
... English holiday , English children and their English elders - nonsense and the art of nonsense . Fortunately , timeliness is given to my choice by the recent appearance of a collected edition of Edward Lear's Books of Nonsense , of ...
... English holiday , English children and their English elders - nonsense and the art of nonsense . Fortunately , timeliness is given to my choice by the recent appearance of a collected edition of Edward Lear's Books of Nonsense , of ...
Page 166
... English art and culture during the period between 1250 and 1550 has been much neglected . This was formerly regarded as an obscure age about which little was known . The art of the Middle Ages has , however , at last come into its own ...
... English art and culture during the period between 1250 and 1550 has been much neglected . This was formerly regarded as an obscure age about which little was known . The art of the Middle Ages has , however , at last come into its own ...
Page 428
... English king the New England colonists did not also throw out the English language . The popular belief that we and the Americans speak the same language ( a belief , which , interestingly , is not shared by most Americans ) has led us ...
... English king the New England colonists did not also throw out the English language . The popular belief that we and the Americans speak the same language ( a belief , which , interestingly , is not shared by most Americans ) has led us ...
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