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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... voice . I do not want it for speaking with ; I will make a ring of it that my silence may wear on its little finger . In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice . ( The captive voice , far away , put on a cricket's ...
... voice . I do not want it for speaking with ; I will make a ring of it that my silence may wear on its little finger . In a drop of water the little boy was looking for his voice . ( The captive voice , far away , put on a cricket's ...
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... voice . Two days later I found a dead warbler on the balcony ; presumably it had dashed itself against a window . When I picked it up its flattened little corpse seemed to weigh no more than a postage stamp . Last night there was a ...
... voice . Two days later I found a dead warbler on the balcony ; presumably it had dashed itself against a window . When I picked it up its flattened little corpse seemed to weigh no more than a postage stamp . Last night there was a ...
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... voice finally came out with a platitude or two and poor , brief advice . Still , greatly preferable to confession in ... voices is not sing- ing , but a sort of Instrumental music , the sense of the words being lost by not being heard ...
... voice finally came out with a platitude or two and poor , brief advice . Still , greatly preferable to confession in ... voices is not sing- ing , but a sort of Instrumental music , the sense of the words being lost by not being heard ...
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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