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Loiterer's Harvest A Book Of Essays
Author: E. V. Lucas

LOITERERS HARVEST A BOOK OF ESSAYS - CONTENTS - SEEN FROM THE LINE . PERSONS OF QUALITY I. MR. FRANK, OF BOLOGNA 11. GEORGE M ORROW 111. WISH W YNNE . IV. MASTERS, NEW AND OLD V. HENR B Y U RSTOW VI. A. W. RICH . VII. GENBE AND PAVLOVA . VIII. COUNCILLOR K OPPEL . THE JOLLY GOOD FELLOWS . PAGE i Loiterers Harvest PAGE I. OPEIRY A S P IFERA 11. T... more »HE BATS 111. ENTENTE. IV. THE GOOD MAJOR V. THE ROGUES VI. THE PRINCES A S N D MEN VII. THE HOFBRAUHAUS UNLIKELYC ONVERSATIONS I. THE NEW GAOL. 11. PUCK SIJPERSEDED 111. THE SECRET O UT IV. THE S CHOOL FO R WAITERS . V. THE PUBLICSP RIVILEGE VI. A FINANCIER . I. WHATS THE ODDS I . THEIR FIRST DRINKS . 111. THE RESULT OF PETTY THEFT. Contents 4 vii PAGE IV. SPOILED S TORIES V. How POETRY CAME TO THE COURSE . VI. R. I. P. VII. THE WHITEBAI T VIII. THE NICE THINGS . IX. ACCOUNT D S E LIGHTFULLY RENDERED . THE FOURPENNBYO X I. THE WAY WITH A LORD 11. HELL-FIRED ICK III. ANOUTRAGE . IV. MRS. THORNTON V. CARLYLE P S R OVOCATION VI. TWO INVITA IOSS VII. TRIFLING W ITH THE DOCTOR . VIII. FRIENDS. . IX. AN AID TO CIRCULATION X. A PHRASE XI. SATURNINITY . LOITERERS HARVEST Seen from the Line Q 0 e . o. A N ingenious friend, many of whose ideas I have from time to time borrowed or frankly stolen, projected once a series of guide-books, to be subsidized by railway companies, which were to bear the same title as this essay, and to enlarge upon the towns, villages, cathedrals, mansions, parks, and other objects of interest, glimpses of which could be obtained from carriage windows. Like too many of - his schemes, it has as yet come to nothing but I have often thought of it when travelling, and par ticularly when, as the train rushed through Reclhill, I used to catch sight once or twice a week of the bleak white house among the trees on the slope immediately to the east of the station, because that house was built by a man of genius who has always attracted me, and who deliberately placed it there and allowed no blinds in it that he might have the pageant of the sunset over the weald of Surrey and Sussex before his eyes. But there was another reason, of far greater importance and shiningly unique, for Iookirlg for this white Seen from the Line house amollg the hillside trees, and that is that it is a link between the very ordinary, matter-of-fact person whom I know as myself and the inspired mystic who wrote cc Tiger, Tiger, burning bright and Jerusalem, and drew portraits of the prophets from his inner vision-none other than Williarn Blake. That there shoulcl be any other bond between us than my admiration of his genius will probably come as a surprise to most of my friends...

ISBN-13: 9781408618073
ISBN-10: 1408618079
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 264
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