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Hilaire Belloc. On Something
On Something
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A PLEA FOR THE SIMPLER DRAMA. ON A NOTEBOOK. ON UNKNOWN PEOPLE. ON A VAN TROMP. HIS CHARACTER. ON THRUPPENNY BITS. ON THE HOTEL AT PALMA AND A PROPOSED GUIDE-BOOK. THE DEATH OF WANDERING PETER. THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. A NORFOLK MAN. THE ODD PEOPLE. LETTER OF ADVICE AND APOLOGY TO A YOUNG BURGLAR. THE MONKEY QUESTION: AN APPEAL TO COMMON SENSE. THE EMPIRE BUILDER. CAEDWALLA. A UNIT OF ENGLAND. THE RELIC. THE IRONMONGER. A FORCE IN GAUL. ON BRIDGES. A BLUE BOOK. PERIGEUX OF THE PERIGORD. THE POSITION. HOME. THE WAY TO FAIRYLAND. THE PORTRAIT OF A CHILD. ON EXPERIENCE. ON IMMORTALITY. ON SACRAMENTAL THINGS. IN PATRIA
A PLEA FOR THE SIMPLER DRAMA
THE CRISIS
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ
ON A NOTEBOOK
"AN EARNEST MEMBER OF THE FOLD"
ON UNKNOWN PEOPLE
ON A VAN TROMP
HIS CHARACTER
ON THRUPPENNY BITS
ON THE HOTEL AT PALMA AND A PROPOSED GUIDE-BOOK
ULYSSES,
THE DEATH OF WANDERING PETER
THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE
A NORFOLK MAN
THE ODD PEOPLE
LETTER OF ADVICE AND APOLOGY TO A YOUNG BURGLAR
THE MONKEY QUESTION: AN APPEAL TO COMMON SENSE
THE EMPIRE BUILDER
WHY PAY FANCY PRICES WHICH MUST INEVITABLY FALL BEFORE THE FUNCTION? SEATS IN THIS WINDOW, COMMANDING A FULL VIEW OF THE PROCESSION, 5S
"POSTPONED."
CAEDWALLA
A UNIT OF ENGLAND
THE RELIC
THE IRONMONGER
A FORCE IN GAUL
ON BRIDGES
ON BRIDGES
A BLUE BOOK
REPORT OF THE THREE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC TO REPORT UPON THE POTENTIAL RESOURCES, SITUATION, ETC., OF THE NEW ISLAND KNOWN AS "ATLANTIS," RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC AND ANNEXED TO THE REPUBLIC, TOGETHER WITH A RECOMMENDATION ON FUTURE TREATMENT OF SAME. TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC. YOUR HONOUR,
JOSHUA HOGG. ABRAHAM BUSH. JACK BIMBER
JOSHUA HOGG. ABRAHAM BUSH. JACOBUS BIMBER
RECOMMENDATIONS
PERIGEUX OF THE PERIGORD
THE POSITION
HOME
THE WAY TO FAIRYLAND
THE PORTRAIT OF A CHILD
ON EXPERIENCE
ON IMMORTALITY
ON SACRAMENTAL THINGS
IN PATRIA
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Hilaire Belloc
Published by Good Press, 2019
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To this excerpt I find only one marginal note in Capricorn's delicate and beautiful handwriting: "What day?" But whether this referred to some appointment of his own I was unable to discover.
I next find a certain number of cuttings which I think cannot have been intended for the book at all, but must have been designed for poor Capricorn's "Oxford Anthology of Bad Verse," which, just before he left England, he was in process of preparing for the University Press. Capricorn had a very fine sense of bad taste in verse, and the authorities could have chosen no one better suited for the duty of editing such a volume. I must not give the reader too much of these lines, but the following quatrain deserves recognition and a permanent memory:
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