My Secret PlanetA&C Black, 16.07.2012 - 350 Seiten In this autobiography, Denis Healey reveals the breadth of his interests and his knowledge of the arts. In this book, he takes time to look at the literary influences that have shaped his life - his comments are interlaced with quotations from poetry, fiction, philosophy and history, providing a guide to help readers rediscover books he or she may once have read, following onto new authors. |
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... give us infinite riches; how comes it to pass therefore that I am so poor? Of so Scanty and Narrow a fortune, enjoying few and obscure comforts? I thought I could not believe Him a GOD to me unless all his power were employed to Glorify ...
... give us infinite riches; how comes it to pass therefore that I am so poor? Of so Scanty and Narrow a fortune, enjoying few and obscure comforts? I thought I could not believe Him a GOD to me unless all his power were employed to Glorify ...
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... gives an unfiltered view of the adult world as seen by a child. A year earlier she had dictated Love and Marriage to ... give us a slice', while the leg of pork was being cut. Mark Twain went some way towards confirming Daisy Ashford's ...
... gives an unfiltered view of the adult world as seen by a child. A year earlier she had dictated Love and Marriage to ... give us a slice', while the leg of pork was being cut. Mark Twain went some way towards confirming Daisy Ashford's ...
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... give them a core one time, they make a mouth at you and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't-a-going to be no core. YORKSHIRE. My family had moved from Woolwich to Yorkshire when I was five. So for most of my boyhood I lived in ...
... give them a core one time, they make a mouth at you and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't-a-going to be no core. YORKSHIRE. My family had moved from Woolwich to Yorkshire when I was five. So for most of my boyhood I lived in ...
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... give of being pentup by some monotonous and illimitable barrier, according to the mood of mind in which the ... gives them an air of independence rather apt to repel a stranger. I use this expression 'self-sufficiency' in the largest ...
... give of being pentup by some monotonous and illimitable barrier, according to the mood of mind in which the ... gives them an air of independence rather apt to repel a stranger. I use this expression 'self-sufficiency' in the largest ...
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... gives Hannay a dangerous mission: Sir Walter shook hands with me and his eyes blinked a little. 'I may be sending you to your death, Hannay – Good God, what a damned task-mistress duty is! – If so, I shall be haunted with regrets, but ...
... gives Hannay a dangerous mission: Sir Walter shook hands with me and his eyes blinked a little. 'I may be sending you to your death, Hannay – Good God, what a damned task-mistress duty is! – If so, I shall be haunted with regrets, but ...
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OXFORD | |
THE | |
POLITICS | |
THE ARTS | |
NATURE | |
MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN | |
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DEATH | |
THE SPIRIT | |
Epilogue | |
Postscript | |
A Note on the Author Footnote | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
artists beauty bloody Bloomsbury set called century cloud colour D-Day Dodgers D.H. Lawrence dark death described doth dream earth Emily Dickinson eyes face father fear feel flowers friends Gerard Manley Hopkins green hand happy head hear heart heaven Heine Heinrich Heine hill Hopkins human Immanuel Kant Kant Labour later light live look Lukeria man’s master mind morning mother mountains moved nature never night o’er once Oxford painter painting philosophy play pleasure poem poetry poets politician politics Quentin Bell seemed Shakespeare sing songs soul sweet T.S. Eliot thee there’s things Thomas Traherne thou thought Timothy Winters Tom Paulin Traherne trees Virginia Woolf walk Wendy Cope William Blake wind woman women words writing wrote Yeats young