Edward Lear: Landscape Painter and Nonsense Poet (1812-1888)J. Murray, 1938 - 280 pages |
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... four of them died within four months . In the meantime Mrs. Lear , having disposed as best she could of her children , devoted herself , not merely to visiting her husband and taking him his dinner , but also to the less con- genial ...
... four of them died within four months . In the meantime Mrs. Lear , having disposed as best she could of her children , devoted herself , not merely to visiting her husband and taking him his dinner , but also to the less con- genial ...
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... four hundred and forty individuals , ' and , when his eyesight began to be a serious trouble , he made a plan - to which he did not keep - for corresponding only with those to whom he had been in the habit of writing for more than ...
... four hundred and forty individuals , ' and , when his eyesight began to be a serious trouble , he made a plan - to which he did not keep - for corresponding only with those to whom he had been in the habit of writing for more than ...
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... four it mattered less , perhaps , than at twenty - four - as such , was he justified in proposing marriage to a woman many years younger than himself , daughter of a distinguished and wealthy family- even if , as he supposed , she was ...
... four it mattered less , perhaps , than at twenty - four - as such , was he justified in proposing marriage to a woman many years younger than himself , daughter of a distinguished and wealthy family- even if , as he supposed , she was ...
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CHAP PAGE I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH I | 7 |
BIRDS ANIMALS AND LIMERICKS II | 11 |
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