Chatterton: a Biographical StudyMacmillan and Company, 1869 - 328 pages |
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... possessed of somewhat varied abilities . He was fond of reading ; in the constant habit of borrowing as well as lending books ; one " whose accomplishments were much above his station , and who was not totally destitute of a taste for ...
... possessed of somewhat varied abilities . He was fond of reading ; in the constant habit of borrowing as well as lending books ; one " whose accomplishments were much above his station , and who was not totally destitute of a taste for ...
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Sir Daniel Wilson. CHAP . II . Picture of picture in her father's possession - the work , as she believed , of Chatterton's own pencil , -represented him in the same dress , cap in hand , with his mother leading the boy . him towards a ...
Sir Daniel Wilson. CHAP . II . Picture of picture in her father's possession - the work , as she believed , of Chatterton's own pencil , -represented him in the same dress , cap in hand , with his mother leading the boy . him towards a ...
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... possessed that eighteenth century . The doom of the old cross of Edinburgh had been pronounced a few years before , according to a local satirist , Clandero , " for the horrid crime of being an incumbrance to the street . " Scott long ...
... possessed that eighteenth century . The doom of the old cross of Edinburgh had been pronounced a few years before , according to a local satirist , Clandero , " for the horrid crime of being an incumbrance to the street . " Scott long ...
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... on office paper , with consequent corporal penalties . The loss of those school - boy lampoons is to be re- gretted , not from any probable merit they possessed as CHAP . III . Biographi cal value of his satires COLSTON'S HOSPITAL . 37.
... on office paper , with consequent corporal penalties . The loss of those school - boy lampoons is to be re- gretted , not from any probable merit they possessed as CHAP . III . Biographi cal value of his satires COLSTON'S HOSPITAL . 37.
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... possessed a taste for history and poetry , " and was himself a frequent contributor to the periodicals of the day . In reviewing the account furnished by Thistlethwaite to the Dean of Exeter , of his introduction to Chatterton , through ...
... possessed a taste for history and poetry , " and was himself a frequent contributor to the periodicals of the day . In reviewing the account furnished by Thistlethwaite to the Dean of Exeter , of his introduction to Chatterton , through ...
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