Plays and Puritans: And Other Historical EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1873 - 271 pages Plays and Puritans.--Sir Walter Raleigh and his time.--Froude's History of England. |
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... on her departure Mrs. Wilding enters , who , it seems , is the object of her husband's loathing , though young , handsome , and in all respects charming enough . After a scene of stupid and brutal insults , he 54 PLAYS AND PURITANS .
... on her departure Mrs. Wilding enters , who , it seems , is the object of her husband's loathing , though young , handsome , and in all respects charming enough . After a scene of stupid and brutal insults , he 54 PLAYS AND PURITANS .
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... charming personage in it , are too charming for him - as they would have been for us , reader : and he cannot give them up , and go about the one work . He justifies his double - mindedness to him- self , no doubt , as he does to the ...
... charming personage in it , are too charming for him - as they would have been for us , reader : and he cannot give them up , and go about the one work . He justifies his double - mindedness to him- self , no doubt , as he does to the ...
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... charming books ever composed for a child's reading . " - PALL MALL GAZETTE . " A very pretty and highly original book , sure to delight the little world of wondering minds , and which may well please those who have unfortunately passed ...
... charming books ever composed for a child's reading . " - PALL MALL GAZETTE . " A very pretty and highly original book , sure to delight the little world of wondering minds , and which may well please those who have unfortunately passed ...
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... original men of our age . " " Full of charming letters from Rome , " says the MORNING STAR , " from Greece , from America , from Oxford , and from Rugby . " Clough ( Arthur Hugh ) -continued . THE POEMS OF BELLES LETTRES . 7.
... original men of our age . " " Full of charming letters from Rome , " says the MORNING STAR , " from Greece , from America , from Oxford , and from Rugby . " Clough ( Arthur Hugh ) -continued . THE POEMS OF BELLES LETTRES . 7.
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... charming historic pictures , is everywhere vital with moral and religious principles , and is written with a brightness of de- scription , and with a dramatic force in the representation of character , that have made , and will always ...
... charming historic pictures , is everywhere vital with moral and religious principles , and is written with a brightness of de- scription , and with a dramatic force in the representation of character , that have made , and will always ...
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