A Commonplace BookHamish Hamilton, 2001 - 162 sidor When Sir Alec Guinness died in August 2000 at the age of 86, he left behind two exercise books filled with entries in his small, beautiful handwriting, together with a typed-up Introduction that suggests he planned to have the books published or broadcast in some way. Together they make up this commonplace book. |
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... seen these signs ; They are black vesper's pageants . ' William Shakespeare , Antony and Cleopatra For me the most terrifying line in Shakespeare comes at the end of this short speech in The Winter's Tale and is spoken by Leontes , who ...
... seen these signs ; They are black vesper's pageants . ' William Shakespeare , Antony and Cleopatra For me the most terrifying line in Shakespeare comes at the end of this short speech in The Winter's Tale and is spoken by Leontes , who ...
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... seen one , and we have peppered the Combined rarely ; and for the matter of that , they fought us pretty tightish ... seen him - but then , all the men in our ship who have seen him are such soft toads , they have done nothing but blast ...
... seen one , and we have peppered the Combined rarely ; and for the matter of that , they fought us pretty tightish ... seen him - but then , all the men in our ship who have seen him are such soft toads , they have done nothing but blast ...
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... seen - if seen - from Beachy Head one hot and hazy Sunday afternoon in about 1930. The tide appeared to be in , then within minutes far out , and then - in a short in again . We were on a school walk . It was com- mented on at the time ...
... seen - if seen - from Beachy Head one hot and hazy Sunday afternoon in about 1930. The tide appeared to be in , then within minutes far out , and then - in a short in again . We were on a school walk . It was com- mented on at the time ...
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Act I Sc actors Anthony Trollope asked beautiful Ben Jonson birds blessing blue Cardinal Newman Collected Poems Commonplace Book course fifteen degrees Crab Daily Telegraph dark dead dear death divert your course Dr Johnson dream E. E. Cummings earth eyes grandam green Hamlet hand hath head heigh Jeoffry John Updike King Lady land laugh letter light live look Lord Matthew Arnold mind Miroslav Holub Montaigne morning never Ogden Nash party played by Sebastian pleasant pleasure POLONIUS Prime Minister Quentin Stevenson quoted R. S. Thomas replied Reproduced by permission Robert Nye scene sing Song soul T. S. Eliot talk Theatre things thou thought tide told trees U. A. Fanthorpe unto voice W. H. Auden walking William Shakespeare wind wisdom word young