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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... wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day. – Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare I had a happy childhood, which I now recognize as a blessing beyond price. Indeed I was reluctant to leave my ...
... wind and the rain; A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day. – Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare I had a happy childhood, which I now recognize as a blessing beyond price. Indeed I was reluctant to leave my ...
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... wind-cherried noses, on spread, frozen feet they crunched up to the doors and mittened on them manfully. But all that the children could hear was a ringing of bells.' 'You mean that the postman went rat-a-tat-tat and the doors rang?' 'I ...
... wind-cherried noses, on spread, frozen feet they crunched up to the doors and mittened on them manfully. But all that the children could hear was a ringing of bells.' 'You mean that the postman went rat-a-tat-tat and the doors rang?' 'I ...
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... wind; And the Angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy, He'd have God for his father, and never wantjoy. And so Tom ... winds blow. When teacher talks he won't hear a word And he shoots down dead the arithmetic-bird, He licks the patterns ...
... wind; And the Angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy, He'd have God for his father, and never wantjoy. And so Tom ... winds blow. When teacher talks he won't hear a word And he shoots down dead the arithmetic-bird, He licks the patterns ...
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... wind And took a mess of shadows for its meat? And I though never of Ledaean kind Had pretty plumage once – enough of that, Better to smile on all that smile, and show There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow. V What youthful mother ...
... wind And took a mess of shadows for its meat? And I though never of Ledaean kind Had pretty plumage once – enough of that, Better to smile on all that smile, and show There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow. V What youthful mother ...
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... wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. The happiest days of my boyhood were spent in the Yorkshire moors and dales. I find their essence best ...
... wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. The happiest days of my boyhood were spent in the Yorkshire moors and dales. I find their essence best ...
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OXFORD | |
THE | |
POLITICS | |
THE ARTS | |
NATURE | |
MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN | |
8 | |
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