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Ah ! I wish I were as sure of my original matter as I am of my selections . It is right
to say that a few of these papers ( like the first volume of my earliest “ Our Village
” ) have appeared in an obscure Journal . prose work SWALLOWFIELD , NEAR ...
Ah ! I wish I were as sure of my original matter as I am of my selections . It is right
to say that a few of these papers ( like the first volume of my earliest “ Our Village
” ) have appeared in an obscure Journal . prose work SWALLOWFIELD , NEAR ...
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They had no precursors either in our own language or in any other , and they
produced accordingly the sort of impression more vivid than durable , which
highlycoloured and deeply - shadowed novelty is sure to make on the public
mind .
They had no precursors either in our own language or in any other , and they
produced accordingly the sort of impression more vivid than durable , which
highlycoloured and deeply - shadowed novelty is sure to make on the public
mind .
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We loved to gaze on that princely mansion , repeating to each other the
marvellous lines in which our two matchless satirists have immortalised the
Duke's follies , and doubting which portrait were the best . We may at least be
sure that no third ...
We loved to gaze on that princely mansion , repeating to each other the
marvellous lines in which our two matchless satirists have immortalised the
Duke's follies , and doubting which portrait were the best . We may at least be
sure that no third ...
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the fact that at an early age Cowley was thrown amongst the cavaliers of the civil
wars , sharing the exile and the return of the Stuarts , and doubtless disgusted ,
as so pure a writer was pretty sure to be , by a dissolute Court , with whom he ...
the fact that at an early age Cowley was thrown amongst the cavaliers of the civil
wars , sharing the exile and the return of the Stuarts , and doubtless disgusted ,
as so pure a writer was pretty sure to be , by a dissolute Court , with whom he ...
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Ladies , dear ladies , if one could be sure that no man would open this book , if
we were all together in ( female ) parliament assembled , without a single male
creature within hearing , might we not , sense . VOL . I. E acknowledge that the
sex ...
Ladies , dear ladies , if one could be sure that no man would open this book , if
we were all together in ( female ) parliament assembled , without a single male
creature within hearing , might we not , sense . VOL . I. E acknowledge that the
sex ...
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