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... followed one from Sir Frederick Elliot : - ' I am much obliged to you for sending me the correspondence with Head . After all , that two such men as he and you should be engaged , in the midst of this capital , in writing letters on ...
... followed one from Sir Frederick Elliot : - ' I am much obliged to you for sending me the correspondence with Head . After all , that two such men as he and you should be engaged , in the midst of this capital , in writing letters on ...
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... followed placed the Colonial Office for one day in circumstances which were new to it . It was and is still ( in 1875 ) , though it will soon cease to be , a commonplace brick house at the end of Downing Street , which celebrated street ...
... followed placed the Colonial Office for one day in circumstances which were new to it . It was and is still ( in 1875 ) , though it will soon cease to be , a commonplace brick house at the end of Downing Street , which celebrated street ...
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... followed by that of others in rather rapid succession . For me , therefore , a series of funereal poems was not ill - timed , and it was in these days , - When the long funerals blackened all the way , that Tennyson's ' In Memoriam ...
... followed by that of others in rather rapid succession . For me , therefore , a series of funereal poems was not ill - timed , and it was in these days , - When the long funerals blackened all the way , that Tennyson's ' In Memoriam ...
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... a corresponding rank in the days and generations that have followed . Tennyson's work came out , as I have said , seasonably for us mourners ; and the impression it made upon me , as upon others , was signal AT . 50 61 ' IN MEMORIAM . '
... a corresponding rank in the days and generations that have followed . Tennyson's work came out , as I have said , seasonably for us mourners ; and the impression it made upon me , as upon others , was signal AT . 50 61 ' IN MEMORIAM . '
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... death of her sister , Mrs. Nesfield , had followed almost immediately on that of her brother , and ( probably owing to the renewed shocks ) her suffering from want of breath had been again severe . 76 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HENRY TAYLOR . 1850– ...
... death of her sister , Mrs. Nesfield , had followed almost immediately on that of her brother , and ( probably owing to the renewed shocks ) her suffering from want of breath had been again severe . 76 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HENRY TAYLOR . 1850– ...
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