Peregrine Pultuney; Or, Life in India, Volume 2J. Mortimer, 1844 |
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... thing in poetry is the rolling tide of the sinuous Ganges , but how wretchedly unpoetical is this said Ganges in real- ity , as you enter it from the Bay of Bengal . It is not commonplace , for the utter absence of one redeeming feature ...
... thing in poetry is the rolling tide of the sinuous Ganges , but how wretchedly unpoetical is this said Ganges in real- ity , as you enter it from the Bay of Bengal . It is not commonplace , for the utter absence of one redeeming feature ...
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... thing or any person less objectionable . The river was swollen and brown ; the sky black and lowering ; and the country on either side looked for all the world like the flower garden of the gaunt Fever King . 1 It is a pleasant thing to ...
... thing or any person less objectionable . The river was swollen and brown ; the sky black and lowering ; and the country on either side looked for all the world like the flower garden of the gaunt Fever King . 1 It is a pleasant thing to ...
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... . " It hasn't a saving point about it . I'm blest if it don't beat Addiscombe - beat the ship - beat every thing I've ever seen - a confounded hole , Pere- grine , without a single redeeming quality — not a 4 . PEREGRINE PULTUNEY .
... . " It hasn't a saving point about it . I'm blest if it don't beat Addiscombe - beat the ship - beat every thing I've ever seen - a confounded hole , Pere- grine , without a single redeeming quality — not a 4 . PEREGRINE PULTUNEY .
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... how goes it with you ? —I suppose you are as happy as you can be . " Peregrine Pultuney did not suppose any thing of the kind , but he thought that this modus B 3 · PEREGRINE PULTUNEY . 9 "Not a word of it," returned our ...
... how goes it with you ? —I suppose you are as happy as you can be . " Peregrine Pultuney did not suppose any thing of the kind , but he thought that this modus B 3 · PEREGRINE PULTUNEY . 9 "Not a word of it," returned our ...
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... thing but most wretched . " Well then , I suppose I don't - but you know that appearances are deceitful sometimes - I may be happy and yet not look so . " 66 Scarcely that , " remarked Peregrine Pultuney . " Well then , " continued ...
... thing but most wretched . " Well then , I suppose I don't - but you know that appearances are deceitful sometimes - I may be happy and yet not look so . " 66 Scarcely that , " remarked Peregrine Pultuney . " Well then , " continued ...
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Peregrine Pultuney; Or, Life in India [By Sir J.W. Kaye] John William Kaye,Peregrine Pultuney No preview available - 2023 |
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