The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, Հատոր 1Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1999 - 536 էջ These annotated letters present the first personal glimpse of this Scottish playwright as she wrote and lived. It documents her problems with publishers, describes her encounters with Wordsworth, Byron, Southey, Berry and other literary figures, outlines a long relationship with Scott and places an active literary woman in the historical and social setting of early to mid-nineteenth century Britain. |
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... thing , but , with other corroborating circumstances , pretty near it . — Our ancestor fled to Holland no doubt on account of his religion and of having been connected with Baillie of Jerviswood , and it is possible that his opinions ...
... thing , but , with other corroborating circumstances , pretty near it . — Our ancestor fled to Holland no doubt on account of his religion and of having been connected with Baillie of Jerviswood , and it is possible that his opinions ...
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... thing that I can remember is sitting with my Sister on the steps of the s [ t ] air in Bothwell Manse , repeating after her as loud as I could roar the letters of the Alphabet while she held in her hand a paper on which ( on which ) was ...
... thing that I can remember is sitting with my Sister on the steps of the s [ t ] air in Bothwell Manse , repeating after her as loud as I could roar the letters of the Alphabet while she held in her hand a paper on which ( on which ) was ...
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... thing , " the pictures in nearby palaces opening their imaginations . These visits , along with excursions into the old forest , writes Baillie , ... did my fanciful untaught mind much good .... but into the Town itself I never looked ...
... thing , " the pictures in nearby palaces opening their imaginations . These visits , along with excursions into the old forest , writes Baillie , ... did my fanciful untaught mind much good .... but into the Town itself I never looked ...
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... thing is to follow this marriage ( at least is intended to do so ) which I think you will rather be pleased with ; a most unlooked for thing I am sure to me . I am going abroad with the new married pair and my Nephew William to spend ...
... thing is to follow this marriage ( at least is intended to do so ) which I think you will rather be pleased with ; a most unlooked for thing I am sure to me . I am going abroad with the new married pair and my Nephew William to spend ...
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... thing to Mrs Agnes . Mr & Mrs W.B think it best to make no change in her existence or mode of living , but to leave her at Hampstead with her 3 maids , one of them , they say a superior woman , who manages her mistress judiciously ...
... thing to Mrs Agnes . Mr & Mrs W.B think it best to make no change in her existence or mode of living , but to leave her at Hampstead with her 3 maids , one of them , they say a superior woman , who manages her mistress judiciously ...
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To Mary Berry 18041833? | 152 |
To William Sotheby 18041831 | 176 |
To Sir Walter Scott 18081829 | 228 |
To Anne Elliott 18091833 | 445 |
To Sir Thomas Lawrence 18121829 | 483 |
To Lady Davy 18131850? | 494 |
Index Volume 1 | 528 |
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Էջ 96 - O welcome all ! to me ye say, My woodland love is on her way. Upon the soft wind floats her hair, Her breath is in the dewy air ; Her steps are in the whispered sound That steals along the stilly ground.
Էջ 366 - That in the antique Oratory shook His bosom in its solitude ; and then — As in that hour — a moment o'er his face The tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced, — and then it faded as it came, And he stood calm and quiet, and he spoke The fitting vows, but heard not his own words, And all things reel'd around him...
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