Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2Hurst and Blackett, 1858 |
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... common at present , but which were at that time novel and extraordinary . I succeeded in making him remarkably hardy ; I also succeeded in making him fearless of danger , and , what is more difficult , capable of bearing privation of ...
... common at present , but which were at that time novel and extraordinary . I succeeded in making him remarkably hardy ; I also succeeded in making him fearless of danger , and , what is more difficult , capable of bearing privation of ...
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... common in those times , and on such terms a new patent for the joint advantage of Mr. Home and Mr. Scott was drawn out . Thus while he was designing to make literature the great business of his life , the wily and cautious poet secured ...
... common in those times , and on such terms a new patent for the joint advantage of Mr. Home and Mr. Scott was drawn out . Thus while he was designing to make literature the great business of his life , the wily and cautious poet secured ...
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... common patience . That Scott should have the indecency to publish a dramatic sketch , which took him only two mornings to write , is a good cause of irritation to anyone capable of loving art . It was in 1822 , that George the Fourth ...
... common patience . That Scott should have the indecency to publish a dramatic sketch , which took him only two mornings to write , is a good cause of irritation to anyone capable of loving art . It was in 1822 , that George the Fourth ...
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... endowed with an ever active imagination , a lively brain , and a more than common share of nervous irritability , he altogether lacked earnestness of thought . It can with justice be said of Sir Walter , WALTER SCOTT , 75.
... endowed with an ever active imagination , a lively brain , and a more than common share of nervous irritability , he altogether lacked earnestness of thought . It can with justice be said of Sir Walter , WALTER SCOTT , 75.
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... four eighteen pounders , and which was wrapped in a common white sheet , it was lowered from the ship into the great ocean , the Captain having previously read the funeral service . " At the first plunge , " 106 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
... four eighteen pounders , and which was wrapped in a common white sheet , it was lowered from the ship into the great ocean , the Captain having previously read the funeral service . " At the first plunge , " 106 NOVELS AND NOVELISTS .
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Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
Novels and Novelists, from Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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