Edward Lear: Landscape Painter and Nonsense Poet (1812-1888)J. Murray, 1938 - 280 pages |
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... become a naturalized Englishman and had changed his name from Lør to Lear . My Danish Grandfather , ' says Edward Lear , picked off the two dots and pulled out the diagonal line and made the word Lear ( the two dots and the line and the ...
... become a naturalized Englishman and had changed his name from Lør to Lear . My Danish Grandfather , ' says Edward Lear , picked off the two dots and pulled out the diagonal line and made the word Lear ( the two dots and the line and the ...
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... become a hiding - place of refugees and exiles . On entering the gloomy hall of the fortress Lear realized almost immedi- ately that the dark , stealthy figures silently surrounding him were those of men who , from some cause or other ...
... become a hiding - place of refugees and exiles . On entering the gloomy hall of the fortress Lear realized almost immedi- ately that the dark , stealthy figures silently surrounding him were those of men who , from some cause or other ...
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... become immortal , their own mundane occupations forgotten , in the aery world of nonsense . Lady Waldegrave had given Lear another commission , this time for a picture of Venice , and he started off there in November on his way to Malta ...
... become immortal , their own mundane occupations forgotten , in the aery world of nonsense . Lady Waldegrave had given Lear another commission , this time for a picture of Venice , and he started off there in November on his way to Malta ...
Contents
a १ Argoxy 4224 55157 CONTENTS | 6 |
CHAP PAGE I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH I | 7 |
BIRDS ANIMALS AND LIMERICKS II | 11 |
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