The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ...: Told by Herself in Letters to Her Friends, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1870 |
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... She has only once been in Reading , and generally speaking , goes nowhere but to Whit- ley , and then only for an hour , on some fine morning , when there is neither sun , nor wind , nor dust 30 LIFE OF MARY RUSSELL MITFORD .
... She has only once been in Reading , and generally speaking , goes nowhere but to Whit- ley , and then only for an hour , on some fine morning , when there is neither sun , nor wind , nor dust 30 LIFE OF MARY RUSSELL MITFORD .
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... speak of any thing connected with the theatre - be performed at Drury Lane next season . It is on the story of Rienzi , the friend of Petrarch ; the man who restored for a short time , and in so remarkable a manner , the old republican ...
... speak of any thing connected with the theatre - be performed at Drury Lane next season . It is on the story of Rienzi , the friend of Petrarch ; the man who restored for a short time , and in so remarkable a manner , the old republican ...
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... speak of him as I do - every body , indeed , except the select few who compose his exclusive admirers - and even they praise him just as they praise an orator , and cry up his discourses just as they cry up a clever article in a ...
... speak of him as I do - every body , indeed , except the select few who compose his exclusive admirers - and even they praise him just as they praise an orator , and cry up his discourses just as they cry up a clever article in a ...
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... speak ill of Shakspeare ; and , at all events , there is no need to dwell on a slight offense toward the memory of ... speaking , so genial . Ever most grate- fully and affectionately yours , M. R. MITFORD . To B. R. HAYDON , ESQ ...
... speak ill of Shakspeare ; and , at all events , there is no need to dwell on a slight offense toward the memory of ... speaking , so genial . Ever most grate- fully and affectionately yours , M. R. MITFORD . To B. R. HAYDON , ESQ ...
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... speaking the same beautiful language , Shakspeare and Milton will not be buried in the dust of a scholar's library , but live and breathe in af- ter ages as they do now to us . This weather is dreadful . My garden , which a week ago was ...
... speaking the same beautiful language , Shakspeare and Milton will not be buried in the dust of a scholar's library , but live and breathe in af- ter ages as they do now to us . This weather is dreadful . My garden , which a week ago was ...
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