Edward Lear: Landscape Painter and Nonsense Poet (1812-1888)J. Murray, 1938 - 280 pages |
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... already beginning to earn his living by it . ' I began to draw , for bread and cheese , about 1827 , ' he tells us , ' but only did uncommon queer shop - sketches - selling them for prices varying from ninepence to four shillings ...
... already beginning to earn his living by it . ' I began to draw , for bread and cheese , about 1827 , ' he tells us , ' but only did uncommon queer shop - sketches - selling them for prices varying from ninepence to four shillings ...
Page 63
... already left . He was forced to spend Christmas in Malta , and pursued his friend , as soon as he could , to Cairo . Cairo astonished him . ' I shall never be surprised again at anything after the streets of Cairo , ' he wrote to Ann ...
... already left . He was forced to spend Christmas in Malta , and pursued his friend , as soon as he could , to Cairo . Cairo astonished him . ' I shall never be surprised again at anything after the streets of Cairo , ' he wrote to Ann ...
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... Already dying of consumption , she lived but two years longer . He was back in Cairo in March , and , after a few days spent in drawing at Memphis , left for Jerusalem , travelling by land over the ' Short Desert ' ( where now the ...
... Already dying of consumption , she lived but two years longer . He was back in Cairo in March , and , after a few days spent in drawing at Memphis , left for Jerusalem , travelling by land over the ' Short Desert ' ( where now the ...
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CHAP PAGE I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH I | 7 |
BIRDS ANIMALS AND LIMERICKS II | 11 |
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