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... young fingers , however , were fully sensible of the severe winter of 1789 , which was distinguished by a frost that commenced on the 24th of November and con- tinued , with increasing severity1 , for fifty - one days ! It was in this ...
... young fingers , however , were fully sensible of the severe winter of 1789 , which was distinguished by a frost that commenced on the 24th of November and con- tinued , with increasing severity1 , for fifty - one days ! It was in this ...
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... young chorister , a few years after , I well remember her singing Purcell's Mad Bess ' with great effect , and the graceful manner in which she transferred a share of the applause to Crotch , for his skilful and brilliant accompaniment ...
... young chorister , a few years after , I well remember her singing Purcell's Mad Bess ' with great effect , and the graceful manner in which she transferred a share of the applause to Crotch , for his skilful and brilliant accompaniment ...
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... young man in the Spectator , whose toast Elizabetha ' was by acclamation cut down to plain ' Bess . ' May I add to my earliest ' Recollections ' of Magdalen College the strange impression still left on my memory , at seeing the two ...
... young man in the Spectator , whose toast Elizabetha ' was by acclamation cut down to plain ' Bess . ' May I add to my earliest ' Recollections ' of Magdalen College the strange impression still left on my memory , at seeing the two ...
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... recourse to ( what he thought the young scholars would appreciate ) a quotation from Virgil , in order to express his grief and astonishment . Eloquar an sileam ? ' he were rather short of provisions , they capitulated in a.
... recourse to ( what he thought the young scholars would appreciate ) a quotation from Virgil , in order to express his grief and astonishment . Eloquar an sileam ? ' he were rather short of provisions , they capitulated in a.
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... young jacobin . ' The story of Landor's firing a gun from his room into a window of a room across the quadrangle is given at length from his own pen in his biography ( published in 1869 ) , and one cannot but wonder that his punishment ...
... young jacobin . ' The story of Landor's firing a gun from his room into a window of a room across the quadrangle is given at length from his own pen in his biography ( published in 1869 ) , and one cannot but wonder that his punishment ...
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