Recollections of a Literary Life: Or Books, Places and PeopleHarper, 1858 - 558 páginas |
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... thing approaching in the slightest degree to autobiography . The courteous reader must take it for what it is : —an attempt to make others relish a few favorite writers as heartily as I have relished them myself . My opinions , such as ...
... thing approaching in the slightest degree to autobiography . The courteous reader must take it for what it is : —an attempt to make others relish a few favorite writers as heartily as I have relished them myself . My opinions , such as ...
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... thing but a village . The breakfast - room , where I first possessed myself of my beloved ballads , was a lofty and spacious apartment , literally lined with books , which , with its Turkey carpet , its glowing fire , its sofas and its ...
... thing but a village . The breakfast - room , where I first possessed myself of my beloved ballads , was a lofty and spacious apartment , literally lined with books , which , with its Turkey carpet , its glowing fire , its sofas and its ...
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... thing by starts and nothing long ; But , in the course of one revolving moon , Was chemist , fiddler , statesman , and buffoon ; Then all for women , painting , rhyming , drinking , Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking ...
... thing by starts and nothing long ; But , in the course of one revolving moon , Was chemist , fiddler , statesman , and buffoon ; Then all for women , painting , rhyming , drinking , Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking ...
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... thing . We are , therefore , won- derful wise men , and have a fine business of it , we who spend our time in poetry ... thing of disparagement , and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him . There is no danger from me of ...
... thing . We are , therefore , won- derful wise men , and have a fine business of it , we who spend our time in poetry ... thing of disparagement , and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him . There is no danger from me of ...
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... thing which fixed his attention longer than any other , and which therefore I suppose he found the most lucrative , which was to fetch pottery from the neighborhood of Stoke in Stafford- shire , and to hawk it all through the north of ...
... thing which fixed his attention longer than any other , and which therefore I suppose he found the most lucrative , which was to fetch pottery from the neighborhood of Stoke in Stafford- shire , and to hawk it all through the north of ...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1 Mary Russell Mitford Visualização completa - 1852 |
Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People Mary Russell Mitford Visualização completa - 1852 |
Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1 Mary Russell Mitford Visualização completa - 1852 |
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admirable ballads beauty Ben Jonson bird Bonny Dundee Bradshaigh bright brother called charming dear death delight doth EACUS English EURIPIDES eyes fair father fear feeling flowers Gelert gentlemen Gerald Griffin give Goodere grace hand happy hath hear heard heart Hepzibah honor horse Joanna Baillie John Banim John Clare kind King Klopstock knew Kyng lady laughed letters light live look Lord Mahony maid mignonette Molière morning murder never night noble o'er once Pan is dead passed pleasure poems poet poetry poor praise round SACK OF BALTIMORE scene seemed sing smile Soggarth aroon song spirit story sweet tears tell thee There's thing thou thought took trees Twas Ufton Court verse walk wild Winthrop Mackworth Praed wirra-sthru wonder words write wyfe XANTHIAS young youth