My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 28
... kind in it . So , in after years , when I became fascinated by the poems of Hood , the beautiful and pathetic verses beginning— " I remember , I remember , The house where I was born , The little window where the sun Came peeping in ...
... kind in it . So , in after years , when I became fascinated by the poems of Hood , the beautiful and pathetic verses beginning— " I remember , I remember , The house where I was born , The little window where the sun Came peeping in ...
Page 29
... kind at Usk , which was no doubt due to the free out- door life we lived there , spending a great part of the day in the large garden or by the riverside , or in the fields and woods around us . As will be seen later on , this immunity ...
... kind at Usk , which was no doubt due to the free out- door life we lived there , spending a great part of the day in the large garden or by the riverside , or in the fields and woods around us . As will be seen later on , this immunity ...
Page 36
... kind of peep- show . A little way off an equally novel and still more com- plex operation was always going on , accompanied by strange noises always dear to the young . Looking in at other windows we saw numbers of workmen engaged in ...
... kind of peep- show . A little way off an equally novel and still more com- plex operation was always going on , accompanied by strange noises always dear to the young . Looking in at other windows we saw numbers of workmen engaged in ...
Page 41
... kind of play- ground , and we sometimes spent a whole afternoon wandering about it . In the neighbourhood of Morgan's Walk , however , there were many interesting spots , among others , some old hedgerows which had been so undermined in ...
... kind of play- ground , and we sometimes spent a whole afternoon wandering about it . In the neighbourhood of Morgan's Walk , however , there were many interesting spots , among others , some old hedgerows which had been so undermined in ...
Page 49
... kind of candlestick he liked . An empty ink - bottle was often used , or the candle was even stuck on to the desk with a little of its own grease . So that it enabled us to learn our lessons or do our sums , no one seemed to trouble ...
... kind of candlestick he liked . An empty ink - bottle was often used , or the candle was even stuck on to the desk with a little of its own grease . So that it enabled us to learn our lessons or do our sums , no one seemed to trouble ...
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