The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ...: Told by Herself in Letters to Her Friends, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1870 |
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... wonderful of the three great poets , although Sophocles seems to me the most perfect . His " Philoctetes , " besides the fine romance of the first scene , moves one to deeper pity and livelier in- dignation than any play I ever read out ...
... wonderful of the three great poets , although Sophocles seems to me the most perfect . His " Philoctetes , " besides the fine romance of the first scene , moves one to deeper pity and livelier in- dignation than any play I ever read out ...
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... to bed this very morning of twins - a catastrophe which I have been predict- ing to her this month past . Never fear for dear Mrs. Haydon -- there is a wonderful providence in such cases LETTERS FOR 1825 AND 1826 . 47.
... to bed this very morning of twins - a catastrophe which I have been predict- ing to her this month past . Never fear for dear Mrs. Haydon -- there is a wonderful providence in such cases LETTERS FOR 1825 AND 1826 . 47.
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... wonderful providence in such cases . Besides , there is a purity of health about her ; and she is so loving and so precious that she will be taken particular care of - depend upon it . When I last saw my portrait it seemed to me as like ...
... wonderful providence in such cases . Besides , there is a purity of health about her ; and she is so loving and so precious that she will be taken particular care of - depend upon it . When I last saw my portrait it seemed to me as like ...
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... wonderful development ! I never found the perceptive organs so strong in any English head , nor the reflective organs so strong in any foreign head before . " make their appearance before ( and really one wonders that 54 LIFE OF MARY ...
... wonderful development ! I never found the perceptive organs so strong in any English head , nor the reflective organs so strong in any foreign head before . " make their appearance before ( and really one wonders that 54 LIFE OF MARY ...
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... wonderfully America is ris- ing in the scale of intellect ! A friend lent me lately an essay on Milton's life and writings by Dr. Channing , of Boston , compared with which Macaulay's article in the " Ed- inburgh , " that was so puffed ...
... wonderfully America is ris- ing in the scale of intellect ! A friend lent me lately an essay on Milton's life and writings by Dr. Channing , of Boston , compared with which Macaulay's article in the " Ed- inburgh , " that was so puffed ...
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