The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ...: Told by Herself in Letters to Her Friends, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1870 |
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... whole sackful of detached papers ) , and who read them in the carriage as they afterward traveled through Italy together , told me at the time that if ever they met the public eye it must be with such changes and curtailments as would ...
... whole sackful of detached papers ) , and who read them in the carriage as they afterward traveled through Italy together , told me at the time that if ever they met the public eye it must be with such changes and curtailments as would ...
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... whole fortune at a gaming table , and his friends were fearful of his committing suicide . In spite of all this , the play is not so fine as I thought it when it was acted here fifteen years ago , and the world of the Greek drama were ...
... whole fortune at a gaming table , and his friends were fearful of his committing suicide . In spite of all this , the play is not so fine as I thought it when it was acted here fifteen years ago , and the world of the Greek drama were ...
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... whole play , like the " Philoctetes , " or the " Edipus , " or the " Antigone , " -nothing that approaches in situation to the " Prometheus . " Yet there are beautiful scenes , too , in " Euripides , " especially those two of Phædra in ...
... whole play , like the " Philoctetes , " or the " Edipus , " or the " Antigone , " -nothing that approaches in situation to the " Prometheus . " Yet there are beautiful scenes , too , in " Euripides , " especially those two of Phædra in ...
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... whole village - one of those islands of cultivation and habitancy which are found amidst the downs of Wilt- shire , or the vale of Berkshire - that which is called in these parts the low country . There I mean to place an old and ...
... whole village - one of those islands of cultivation and habitancy which are found amidst the downs of Wilt- shire , or the vale of Berkshire - that which is called in these parts the low country . There I mean to place an old and ...
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... whole work something of interest independent of love . After all , I am really and un- feignedly afraid of my power in this line of composition . Your story of Carlo is very pretty . May has puppies : we had seven - and - twenty ...
... whole work something of interest independent of love . After all , I am really and un- feignedly afraid of my power in this line of composition . Your story of Carlo is very pretty . May has puppies : we had seven - and - twenty ...
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