The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ...: Told by Herself in Letters to Her Friends, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1870 |
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... mind taking the field - Francesca da Rimini - beginning with we may * Mrs. Hemans . It was produced under the name of " The Sicilian Ves- pers . " the scene of Phædra from Euripides , and making the 10 LIFE OF MARY RUSSELL MITFORD .
... mind taking the field - Francesca da Rimini - beginning with we may * Mrs. Hemans . It was produced under the name of " The Sicilian Ves- pers . " the scene of Phædra from Euripides , and making the 10 LIFE OF MARY RUSSELL MITFORD .
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... mind -both driven headlong to ruin by an indomitable self - will- rising by liberty and falling by ambition . Surely there is enough resemblance to justify an attempt to portray the man who , with all his faults , has possessed my ...
... mind -both driven headlong to ruin by an indomitable self - will- rising by liberty and falling by ambition . Surely there is enough resemblance to justify an attempt to portray the man who , with all his faults , has possessed my ...
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... mind is sinking under the fatigue and the anxiety . God bless you , my dear friend ! Forgive this sad letter . Ever most faithfully yours , M. R. MITFORD . TO SIR WILLIAM ELFORD , Bickham , Plymouth . Three - mile Cross , May 13 , 1823 ...
... mind is sinking under the fatigue and the anxiety . God bless you , my dear friend ! Forgive this sad letter . Ever most faithfully yours , M. R. MITFORD . TO SIR WILLIAM ELFORD , Bickham , Plymouth . Three - mile Cross , May 13 , 1823 ...
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... ; for the working of this perpetual fear on my mind was really debilitating , almost paralyzing , in its effect . We are now happy amidst all our cares and poverty , and son . feel as if a hundredweight of lead had LETTERS FOR 1824 .
... ; for the working of this perpetual fear on my mind was really debilitating , almost paralyzing , in its effect . We are now happy amidst all our cares and poverty , and son . feel as if a hundredweight of lead had LETTERS FOR 1824 .
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... mind they are as good as any thing Sir Walter Scott ever wrote . He has opened fresh ground , too ( if one may say so of the sea ) . No one but Smollett has ever attempted to delineate the na- val character ; and then he is so coarse ...
... mind they are as good as any thing Sir Walter Scott ever wrote . He has opened fresh ground , too ( if one may say so of the sea ) . No one but Smollett has ever attempted to delineate the na- val character ; and then he is so coarse ...
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