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... Flower of the Forest 16. Wealth versus Enjoyment ... 17. The Fate of Robert Burns ... 18. Poetry ... ... 19. Magna Charta ... ... ... ... Laurence Sterne ... Charles Dickens ... 20. Character of Napoleon Bonaparte 21. Character of Dr ...
... Flower of the Forest 16. Wealth versus Enjoyment ... 17. The Fate of Robert Burns ... 18. Poetry ... ... 19. Magna Charta ... ... ... ... Laurence Sterne ... Charles Dickens ... 20. Character of Napoleon Bonaparte 21. Character of Dr ...
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... flowers grow- ing on them , and how tall the rushes ! Now the boat was out at sea , but gliding smoothly on ; and now there was a shore before them . Who stood on the bank ? He put his hands together , as he had been used to do at his ...
... flowers grow- ing on them , and how tall the rushes ! Now the boat was out at sea , but gliding smoothly on ; and now there was a shore before them . Who stood on the bank ? He put his hands together , as he had been used to do at his ...
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... flowers , by the mystic hand of refraction . Still always it is beautiful , that life - giving water ; no poison bubbles on its brink ; its foam brings not madness and murder ; no blood stains its liquid glass ; pale widows and starving ...
... flowers , by the mystic hand of refraction . Still always it is beautiful , that life - giving water ; no poison bubbles on its brink ; its foam brings not madness and murder ; no blood stains its liquid glass ; pale widows and starving ...
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... flowers which he begged them to lay on her breast . It was he who had come to the window over - night and spoken to the sexton , and they saw in the snow traces of small feet , where he had been lingering near the room in which she lay ...
... flowers which he begged them to lay on her breast . It was he who had come to the window over - night and spoken to the sexton , and they saw in the snow traces of small feet , where he had been lingering near the room in which she lay ...
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... FLOWER OF THE FOREST . PROFESSOR WILSON . [ John Wilson was the son of a manufacturer in Paisley , where he was born , 1785. He was educated firstly at the University of Glasgow , whence he passed to Magdalene College , Oxford . On ...
... FLOWER OF THE FOREST . PROFESSOR WILSON . [ John Wilson was the son of a manufacturer in Paisley , where he was born , 1785. He was educated firstly at the University of Glasgow , whence he passed to Magdalene College , Oxford . On ...
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