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... correspondent of N. & Q. ' can tell me of any artist of that period signing his works as above . One drawing represents the four figures playing about a winepress ; other shows three of the boys playing with a large vase , from the top ...
... correspondent of N. & Q. ' can tell me of any artist of that period signing his works as above . One drawing represents the four figures playing about a winepress ; other shows three of the boys playing with a large vase , from the top ...
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... correspondent may be right in deriving it from " to put , " with the meaning of a structure built out from another like a balcony " ; but I think this may be a dis- tinct word , and probably an afterthought owing its existence to the ...
... correspondent may be right in deriving it from " to put , " with the meaning of a structure built out from another like a balcony " ; but I think this may be a dis- tinct word , and probably an afterthought owing its existence to the ...
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... correspondent in far Japan has , no doubt , heard of the tale of the " Flying Dutchman , numerous versions of which are known in Germany . An explanation of the many 66 spectre ships actually seen by various travellers is given in Sir ...
... correspondent in far Japan has , no doubt , heard of the tale of the " Flying Dutchman , numerous versions of which are known in Germany . An explanation of the many 66 spectre ships actually seen by various travellers is given in Sir ...
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... correspondent who would help to throw light on them . SIGMA TAU . BLACK DAVIES ( 10 S. xi . 507 ) .- There is a most unfavourable notice of this person at pp . 35-41 of The Minor Jockey Club , or , A Sketch of the Manners of the Greeks ...
... correspondent who would help to throw light on them . SIGMA TAU . BLACK DAVIES ( 10 S. xi . 507 ) .- There is a most unfavourable notice of this person at pp . 35-41 of The Minor Jockey Club , or , A Sketch of the Manners of the Greeks ...
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... correspondent refers , but there may have been a subsequent edition of which I have PERCY DRYDEN MUNDY . no copy . Hove . MALHERBE'S STANCÈS À DU PERRIER ' ( 10 S. xi . 507 ) .- The second verse , De murmurer contre elle et perdre ...
... correspondent refers , but there may have been a subsequent edition of which I have PERCY DRYDEN MUNDY . no copy . Hove . MALHERBE'S STANCÈS À DU PERRIER ' ( 10 S. xi . 507 ) .- The second verse , De murmurer contre elle et perdre ...
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