New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, 102. köideThomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1854 |
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... things to Mr. Lowe , All to move the spleen of his chef , SIR CHARLIE . And I'd criticise Mr. HAYTER'S suavity , And his tact in keeping stray votes in order , And Mr. FRED . PEEL'S precocious gravity , And Counsellor Silvertongue ...
... things to Mr. Lowe , All to move the spleen of his chef , SIR CHARLIE . And I'd criticise Mr. HAYTER'S suavity , And his tact in keeping stray votes in order , And Mr. FRED . PEEL'S precocious gravity , And Counsellor Silvertongue ...
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... things , Miss Cake , besides quadills , and make otha people dance too ! " " Then I wish you'd look for a partner ... thing , " he said , " which plays ' ell with a feller's ' appiness , " and gave a prompt assent to Albert's request ...
... things , Miss Cake , besides quadills , and make otha people dance too ! " " Then I wish you'd look for a partner ... thing , " he said , " which plays ' ell with a feller's ' appiness , " and gave a prompt assent to Albert's request ...
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... things all confusion and bustle at Scutari , for some of our regiments were embarking to go up to Varna ; transports and store - ships fluttered their sails merrily in the breeze ; lumbering horse - boxes were stopping up the way ...
... things all confusion and bustle at Scutari , for some of our regiments were embarking to go up to Varna ; transports and store - ships fluttered their sails merrily in the breeze ; lumbering horse - boxes were stopping up the way ...
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... there's all about a Court - Martial in them upon a Lieutenant Perry , at Windsor . Some of our officers are going mad over it , for he has brought forward such awful things about the private affairs 46 More Stray Letters from the East .
... there's all about a Court - Martial in them upon a Lieutenant Perry , at Windsor . Some of our officers are going mad over it , for he has brought forward such awful things about the private affairs 46 More Stray Letters from the East .
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... things about the private affairs of officers in general , and the Times has actually gone and reprinted the evidence in full , and has got a leading article upon it besides ! Many of us would have given our commissions rather than such ...
... things about the private affairs of officers in general , and the Times has actually gone and reprinted the evidence in full , and has got a leading article upon it besides ! Many of us would have given our commissions rather than such ...
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