Edward Lear: Landscape Painter and Nonsense Poet (1812-1888)J. Murray, 1938 - 280 pages |
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... live in the highest respectability " —and so you must not be too dowdy . Do not forget a thick veil - for cold winds . ' But Ann could not be persuaded : perhaps she felt that her clothes were not smart enough , and that she could no ...
... live in the highest respectability " —and so you must not be too dowdy . Do not forget a thick veil - for cold winds . ' But Ann could not be persuaded : perhaps she felt that her clothes were not smart enough , and that she could no ...
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... lives when he speaks , you naturally suppose a superior being is before you - and are amazed to find he is little more instructed than they are . I gave Ali Bey a pencil and some needles for his mother , which ... live , 60 EDWARD LEAR.
... lives when he speaks , you naturally suppose a superior being is before you - and are amazed to find he is little more instructed than they are . I gave Ali Bey a pencil and some needles for his mother , which ... live , 60 EDWARD LEAR.
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... live long : he had saved three thousand pounds ; and he began to look about for a place in which to live and work quietly till he died . Yet , characteristically , at the same moment he was thinking that after all , it is perhaps the ...
... live long : he had saved three thousand pounds ; and he began to look about for a place in which to live and work quietly till he died . Yet , characteristically , at the same moment he was thinking that after all , it is perhaps the ...
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CHAP PAGE I CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH I | 7 |
BIRDS ANIMALS AND LIMERICKS II | 11 |
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