E. V. Lucas

A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions


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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

       No. 344260

       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