The Lady of the Manor, 3. köideHoulston and Stoneman, 1841 |
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... speaking of his fu- ture wife as of one who must possess the beauty of Helen and the graces of Calypso ... speak in plain language , the young lady whom he selected as the object of his addresses was very rich , though she ...
... speaking of his fu- ture wife as of one who must possess the beauty of Helen and the graces of Calypso ... speak in plain language , the young lady whom he selected as the object of his addresses was very rich , though she ...
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... speak much , yet she laid little restraint on me : and I can well remember , when I was about eight years of age , that I used to steal into the saloon , where my father was entertaining his friends , and actually to make my i ! way ...
... speak much , yet she laid little restraint on me : and I can well remember , when I was about eight years of age , that I used to steal into the saloon , where my father was entertaining his friends , and actually to make my i ! way ...
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... speak German and French with perfect ease ; it was not therefore necessary to his comfort that his literary companions should be Englishmen : but such was his predilection for the classics , that he never con- sidered any man a real ...
... speak German and French with perfect ease ; it was not therefore necessary to his comfort that his literary companions should be Englishmen : but such was his predilection for the classics , that he never con- sidered any man a real ...
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... speaking , are not behind their more western neighbours in their taste for statuary ; and great encouragement is given to the arts of painting and sculpture in the principality of Baden . It was not , therefore , difficult for my father ...
... speaking , are not behind their more western neighbours in their taste for statuary ; and great encouragement is given to the arts of painting and sculpture in the principality of Baden . It was not , therefore , difficult for my father ...
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... speak of them in the warmest terms of approbation . These matters , however , took no hold of his mind ; he would pass them over almost immediately , and scarcely give them a secondary weight when compared with the objects of his ...
... speak of them in the warmest terms of approbation . These matters , however , took no hold of his mind ; he would pass them over almost immediately , and scarcely give them a secondary weight when compared with the objects of his ...
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