Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2Hurst and Blackett, 1858 - 407 էջ |
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... humour speaks volumes on this point . At a dinner at Sir William Elford's , where the party consisted of the host , Colonel Elford , Mr. Opie , Mr. Northcote , and Sir Francis Bourgeois , ( the landscape pain- ter ) , Opie and Northcote ...
... humour speaks volumes on this point . At a dinner at Sir William Elford's , where the party consisted of the host , Colonel Elford , Mr. Opie , Mr. Northcote , and Sir Francis Bourgeois , ( the landscape pain- ter ) , Opie and Northcote ...
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... humour and good taste , " Every Scottishman has a pedigree . It is a national prerogative as unalienable as his pride and his poverty . My birth was neither distinguished nor sordid . " In point of descent Scott had some right to boast ...
... humour and good taste , " Every Scottishman has a pedigree . It is a national prerogative as unalienable as his pride and his poverty . My birth was neither distinguished nor sordid . " In point of descent Scott had some right to boast ...
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... humour - although it rarely rose above buffoonery ; and he was an unblushing liar . James's habits were expen- sive , but John's far more so ; the latter fitted up his villa in a most expensive and luxurious style , entertained his nume ...
... humour - although it rarely rose above buffoonery ; and he was an unblushing liar . James's habits were expen- sive , but John's far more so ; the latter fitted up his villa in a most expensive and luxurious style , entertained his nume ...
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... humour , with any incidents and descriptions of scenery you may see - particularly with characters and traits of manners . I will give it all the cobbling that is necessary , and , if you do but exert yourself , I have not the least ...
... humour , with any incidents and descriptions of scenery you may see - particularly with characters and traits of manners . I will give it all the cobbling that is necessary , and , if you do but exert yourself , I have not the least ...
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From Elizabeth to Victoria John Cordy Jeaffreson. hesitate to reply with perplexing sallies of humour , or with direct lies . On the rising of the Court of Session in the March of 1815 , Scott went to London for a burst of dissipa- tion ...
From Elizabeth to Victoria John Cordy Jeaffreson. hesitate to reply with perplexing sallies of humour , or with direct lies . On the rising of the Court of Session in the March of 1815 , Scott went to London for a burst of dissipa- tion ...
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Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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