Essays from 'Blackwood,'W. Blackwood and sons, 1892 - 344 páginas |
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... Present . ' The field of selec- tion in all these volumes is wide - Spenser , Cow- ley , and Sir John Davies stand side by side with Monckton Milnes and " Miss Barrett " ( since more widely celebrated as Mrs Browning ) . The eighteenth ...
... Present . ' The field of selec- tion in all these volumes is wide - Spenser , Cow- ley , and Sir John Davies stand side by side with Monckton Milnes and " Miss Barrett " ( since more widely celebrated as Mrs Browning ) . The eighteenth ...
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... Present . ' The field of selec- tion in all these volumes is wide - Spenser , Cow- ley , and Sir John Davies stand side by side with Monckton Milnes and " Miss Barrett " ( since more widely celebrated as Mrs Browning ) . The eighteenth ...
... Present . ' The field of selec- tion in all these volumes is wide - Spenser , Cow- ley , and Sir John Davies stand side by side with Monckton Milnes and " Miss Barrett " ( since more widely celebrated as Mrs Browning ) . The eighteenth ...
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... present volume . It is remarkable as penetrating the secret of the sex of the author of ' Adam Bede , ' before this was at all generally suspected ; and the reasons given for the conclusion thus reached are singularly precise and ...
... present volume . It is remarkable as penetrating the secret of the sex of the author of ' Adam Bede , ' before this was at all generally suspected ; and the reasons given for the conclusion thus reached are singularly precise and ...
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... sixteen years , and who would have been most helpful to her ; but when it was undertaken , the work formed the abiding interest of the rest of her life . But what obstructions did present themselves ! First a fall xii MEMOIR .
... sixteen years , and who would have been most helpful to her ; but when it was undertaken , the work formed the abiding interest of the rest of her life . But what obstructions did present themselves ! First a fall xii MEMOIR .
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Anne Mozley F. Mozley. But what obstructions did present themselves ! First a fall and a badly broken arm . Then a partial loss of sight ; then two years before her death a total loss , for all practical purposes , though she could ...
Anne Mozley F. Mozley. But what obstructions did present themselves ! First a fall and a badly broken arm . Then a partial loss of sight ; then two years before her death a total loss , for all practical purposes , though she could ...
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