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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... mountain air and of isolated hill-side life; something be derived from their rough Norse ancestry. They have a quick perception of character, and a keen sense of humour; the dwellers among them must be prepared for certain ...
... mountain air and of isolated hill-side life; something be derived from their rough Norse ancestry. They have a quick perception of character, and a keen sense of humour; the dwellers among them must be prepared for certain ...
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... mountains of Mourne in County Down to St John's College Cambridge with a scholarship. Later he was proud of having served in the college militia with Lord Palmerston. I was equally proud of the fact that while he was Parson of Haworth ...
... mountains of Mourne in County Down to St John's College Cambridge with a scholarship. Later he was proud of having served in the college militia with Lord Palmerston. I was equally proud of the fact that while he was Parson of Haworth ...
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... mountains circling every side – A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air And, deepening still the dream-like charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere. * Often rebuked, yet always back returning To those ...
... mountains circling every side – A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air And, deepening still the dream-like charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere. * Often rebuked, yet always back returning To those ...
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... mountain side. When I finally decided not to stand for East Leeds again in the General Election of 1992 I was determined to maintain contact with the Yorkshire I had known and loved since childhood. So I became President of the National ...
... mountain side. When I finally decided not to stand for East Leeds again in the General Election of 1992 I was determined to maintain contact with the Yorkshire I had known and loved since childhood. So I became President of the National ...
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... mountain to the south had yellow-smoked everything into uniform dinginess. The result was an ugly city of forty thousand people, set in an ugly notch between two ugly mountains that had been all dirtied up by mining. Spread over this ...
... mountain to the south had yellow-smoked everything into uniform dinginess. The result was an ugly city of forty thousand people, set in an ugly notch between two ugly mountains that had been all dirtied up by mining. Spread over this ...
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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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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