My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideDodd, Mead, 1906 |
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Page 6
... beautiful pastel miniature of Mrs. Frances Hodges , who was a Miss Russell , and who died in 1809 , and is buried at All Saints , Hertford ; but the precise relationship , if any , of the Russells to the Greenells I have not been able ...
... beautiful pastel miniature of Mrs. Frances Hodges , who was a Miss Russell , and who died in 1809 , and is buried at All Saints , Hertford ; but the precise relationship , if any , of the Russells to the Greenells I have not been able ...
Page 17
... beautiful . The long procession during the morning of women and children carrying baskets of flowers , and coming in from various directions , often from many miles distant , adds greatly to the interest of the scene . This custom seems ...
... beautiful . The long procession during the morning of women and children carrying baskets of flowers , and coming in from various directions , often from many miles distant , adds greatly to the interest of the scene . This custom seems ...
Page 24
... beautiful view up the river - valley , of the mountains near Abergavenny , ten miles off , the conical sugar - loaf in the centre , the flat - topped mass of the Blorenge on the left , and the rocky ridge of the Skirrid to the right ...
... beautiful view up the river - valley , of the mountains near Abergavenny , ten miles off , the conical sugar - loaf in the centre , the flat - topped mass of the Blorenge on the left , and the rocky ridge of the Skirrid to the right ...
Page 28
... beautiful and pathetic verses beginning— " I remember , I remember , The house where I was born , The little window where the sun Came peeping in each morn ; He never came a wink too soon , Nor brought too long a day , But now I often ...
... beautiful and pathetic verses beginning— " I remember , I remember , The house where I was born , The little window where the sun Came peeping in each morn ; He never came a wink too soon , Nor brought too long a day , But now I often ...
Page 36
... beautiful glossy sur- faces , had an irresistible attraction for us which never palled . But this was only one part of this delightful kind of peep- show . A little way off an equally novel and still more com- plex operation was always ...
... beautiful glossy sur- faces , had an irresistible attraction for us which never palled . But this was only one part of this delightful kind of peep- show . A little way off an equally novel and still more com- plex operation was always ...
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