The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850 |
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... passes over the uninteresting parts . " The escape of the Pythoness with a young Thes- salian seems to afford most spectacle . If you have Diodorus Siculus at hand , and will refer to lib . 16 . " Fire , Famine , Slaughter , " was the ...
... passes over the uninteresting parts . " The escape of the Pythoness with a young Thes- salian seems to afford most spectacle . If you have Diodorus Siculus at hand , and will refer to lib . 16 . " Fire , Famine , Slaughter , " was the ...
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... , for it has been spent alone in the library ; the hours so employed pass rapidly enough , but I grow more and more homesick like a * March 12. 1799 . spoilt child . On the 29th you may expect me ÆTAT . 25 . 13 OF ROBERT SOUTHEY .
... , for it has been spent alone in the library ; the hours so employed pass rapidly enough , but I grow more and more homesick like a * March 12. 1799 . spoilt child . On the 29th you may expect me ÆTAT . 25 . 13 OF ROBERT SOUTHEY .
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... pass- able by carriages . Imagine a narrow vale between two ridges of hills somewhat steep : the southern hill turfed ; the vale which runs from east to west , covered with huge stones and fragments of stones among the fern that fills ...
... pass- able by carriages . Imagine a narrow vale between two ridges of hills somewhat steep : the southern hill turfed ; the vale which runs from east to west , covered with huge stones and fragments of stones among the fern that fills ...
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... pass after telling the circumstances . The lieutenant was drunk ; the young man was a gentleman , who , seeing him stag- gering about the streets , took him by the arm to lead him home ; the Englishman did not understand what he said ...
... pass after telling the circumstances . The lieutenant was drunk ; the young man was a gentleman , who , seeing him stag- gering about the streets , took him by the arm to lead him home ; the Englishman did not understand what he said ...
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... pass this is their strongest mark of contempt . Our phrase , a fig for him , ' is explained by an amulet in use here against witchcraft , called a figa ; the mules and asses wear it . It is the figure of a hand closed , the thumb cocked ...
... pass this is their strongest mark of contempt . Our phrase , a fig for him , ' is explained by an amulet in use here against witchcraft , called a figa ; the mules and asses wear it . It is the figure of a hand closed , the thumb cocked ...
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