A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions. E. V. Lucas

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       E. V. Lucas

      A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664568441

      Table of Contents

       A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD

       A BOSWELL OF BAGHDAD

       I.— Introductory

       II.— Ibn Khallikan

       III.— Men of Letters

       IV.— The First Grammarian

       V.— The First Prosodist

       VI.— A Group of Poets

       VII.— Poetry's Rewards

       VIII.— A Brave Poet

       IX.— A Western Interlude

       X.— Persian Humour

       XI.— The Satirists

       XII.— An Early Chess Champion

       XIII.— Courtesy and Justice

       XIV.— The Ascetics

       XV.— A Night Scene

       XVI.— The Fair

       XVII.— The Great Jaafar

       XVIII.— Love and Lovers

       XIX.— To disarm Critics

       DIVERSIONS

       DIVERSIONS

       Nurses

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       The Two Perkinses

       Arts of Invasion

       The Marble Arch and Peter Magnus

       The Oldest Joke

       The Puttenhams

       I

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       VII

       VIII

       IX

       Poetry made Easy

       A Pioneer

       Full Circle

       A Friend of Man

       In Two Parts

       The Listener

       The Dark Secret

       The Scholar and the Pirate

       A Set of Three

       A Lesson

       ON BELLONA'S HEM

       (SECOND SERIES)

       ON BELLONA'S HEM

       A Revel in Gambogia

       The Misfire

       A Letter

       (From