Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2Hurst and Blackett, 1858 |
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... reputations to history or " tradition's simple tongue . " She commenced life a brilliant wilful worldling , and ended it a demure Quakeress ; as a girl she was the darling pet of revolutionary writers and extreme sceptics , and in her ...
... reputations to history or " tradition's simple tongue . " She commenced life a brilliant wilful worldling , and ended it a demure Quakeress ; as a girl she was the darling pet of revolutionary writers and extreme sceptics , and in her ...
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... reputation I have had the good fortune to acquire , if by doing so I could rest the remaining part upon a sound foundation of learning and science . " On the 31st of March , 1786 , Walter Scott was appren- ticed to his father , to learn ...
... reputation I have had the good fortune to acquire , if by doing so I could rest the remaining part upon a sound foundation of learning and science . " On the 31st of March , 1786 , Walter Scott was appren- ticed to his father , to learn ...
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... reputation , although it found many admirers . Jeffrey criticised it severely in " The Edinburgh , " and sent Scott the article and a friendly note , on the very morning of a Tuesday on which he was engaged to dine at his ( Scott's ) ...
... reputation , although it found many admirers . Jeffrey criticised it severely in " The Edinburgh , " and sent Scott the article and a friendly note , on the very morning of a Tuesday on which he was engaged to dine at his ( Scott's ) ...
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... reputation , and from which he had determined to derive no profit . John Ballantyne's health , broken by dissipation , and all those saddening pleasures for which a man of mirth lives , was exerting himself to dispel the thought of ...
... reputation , and from which he had determined to derive no profit . John Ballantyne's health , broken by dissipation , and all those saddening pleasures for which a man of mirth lives , was exerting himself to dispel the thought of ...
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... reputation , that if he had written less he would have written better , that if practising the arts of amusement had been less profitable , he would have been our instructor as well as our pleasant friend . In this judgment we do not ...
... reputation , that if he had written less he would have written better , that if practising the arts of amusement had been less profitable , he would have been our instructor as well as our pleasant friend . In this judgment we do not ...
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Novels and Novelists, from Elizabeth to Victoria, Հատոր 2 John Cordy Jeaffreson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1858 |
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