Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2Hurst and Blackett, 1858 - 407 էջ |
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... writer . The glimpses obtained of her life at Edgeworthtown at two different periods , in Lockhart's account of Sir Walter Scott's visit to her in Ireland , and Mr. and Mrs. Hall's " Ireland , " make us feel as though we were personally ...
... writer . The glimpses obtained of her life at Edgeworthtown at two different periods , in Lockhart's account of Sir Walter Scott's visit to her in Ireland , and Mr. and Mrs. Hall's " Ireland , " make us feel as though we were personally ...
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... writer Mrs. Opie is pathetic and tender , subduing our feelings in spite of her carelessness , her clumsiness , and occasional silliness . She was by far the superior of her con- temporary Madame d'Arblay ; but in this day when Mrs ...
... writer Mrs. Opie is pathetic and tender , subduing our feelings in spite of her carelessness , her clumsiness , and occasional silliness . She was by far the superior of her con- temporary Madame d'Arblay ; but in this day when Mrs ...
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... writer to the signet . The old man intended his son for the bar , but wished him first to learn the habits and minutiae of legal business in the humbler walk of the profession . Walter in after life never lamented this step , for the ...
... writer to the signet . The old man intended his son for the bar , but wished him first to learn the habits and minutiae of legal business in the humbler walk of the profession . Walter in after life never lamented this step , for the ...
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... of throwing open the en- tire suite of reception rooms was , when a gloomy crowd assembled to attend the body of the great writer to the tomb . A dark change was now to come over Scott's career 62 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
... of throwing open the en- tire suite of reception rooms was , when a gloomy crowd assembled to attend the body of the great writer to the tomb . A dark change was now to come over Scott's career 62 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
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... writer a tear , nor has ever made a reader's pulse vary one beat . On the 23rd of September , Sir Walter left Abbotsford . On the 28th he reached London , a tottering , infirm old man , though only sixty years old . A king's ship was ...
... writer a tear , nor has ever made a reader's pulse vary one beat . On the 23rd of September , Sir Walter left Abbotsford . On the 28th he reached London , a tottering , infirm old man , though only sixty years old . A king's ship was ...
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Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 1 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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