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'M. Maurois's talent is made of proportion, sanity and balance, and his style of a sure skill in the movement and order of ideas. What a picture he gives us of an age, not yet so remote but that our own grandparents or great-grandparents may have figured in it' The Times Literary Supplement… (meer)
This doesn't strictly fit the Penguin theme; read it by mistake. Actually a bit better than Maurois' Shelley. Oh, not reviews? Then here goes. The first superstar, with all the attendant problems. One of the most entertaining biographies I've read in a long time.
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Seigneur, j'etais dans le neant, infiniment nul et tranquille. J'ai ete derange de cet etat pour etre jete dans le carnaval etrange... - Paul Valery
Even if Calvinism had been carved on tables of stone and handed down from Heaven by the Almighty Hand, it would not have lived if it had not been found to agree more or less with the facts. - Mark Rutherford
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Through the enchanted Sherwood Forest, close to Nottingham, a little band of black-habited monks, canons regular of the Augustinian Order, came wandering among the oaks.
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The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? | The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? | The harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? | I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch | Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, | Its echo in my heart - Unfinished Canto of Lord Byron
My Lord may be odd, but he has such a good heart. - Fletcher
Have you no other remedy than bleeding? There are many more die of the lancet than the lance. - Lord Byron
I want to go to sleep now. - Last words of Lord Byron
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They do not know that he was a poet; but if asked about him, they will answer--"He was a very brave man--and he came to die for Greece because he loved freedom."
'M. Maurois's talent is made of proportion, sanity and balance, and his style of a sure skill in the movement and order of ideas. What a picture he gives us of an age, not yet so remote but that our own grandparents or great-grandparents may have figured in it' The Times Literary Supplement
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