The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse, Viz Our Village, Belford Regis, Country Stories, Finden's Tableaux, Foscari, Julian, Rienzi, Charles the FirstCrissy & Markley, 1850 - 672 pages |
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Page 16
... called a sacque , and of a pattern so enormous , white still plainer . Mrs. Frances , too , had that one flower with its stalk and leaves , the blue eye , with a laughing light , which so would nearly cover the three quarters of a often ...
... called a sacque , and of a pattern so enormous , white still plainer . Mrs. Frances , too , had that one flower with its stalk and leaves , the blue eye , with a laughing light , which so would nearly cover the three quarters of a often ...
Page 19
... called a greyhound , " the line of beauty in perpetual motion . " Our friend's large dogs were a fine illustra- tion of this remark . His old dog , Hector , for instance , for which he refused a hundred gui- neas , what a superb dog was ...
... called a greyhound , " the line of beauty in perpetual motion . " Our friend's large dogs were a fine illustra- tion of this remark . His old dog , Hector , for instance , for which he refused a hundred gui- neas , what a superb dog was ...
Page 30
... called the Ridges . and again nothing was heard of her for many The ascent was by a steep narrow lane , cut months , until , happening to call on the friends deeply between sand - banks , crowned with at whose house I had originally met ...
... called the Ridges . and again nothing was heard of her for many The ascent was by a steep narrow lane , cut months , until , happening to call on the friends deeply between sand - banks , crowned with at whose house I had originally met ...
Page 48
... called his own home " pleasant " too ; and there , though one loves to hear any home so called - there , I must confess , that favourite phrase , which I like almost as well as they who have no other , did seem rather misapplied . And ...
... called his own home " pleasant " too ; and there , though one loves to hear any home so called - there , I must confess , that favourite phrase , which I like almost as well as they who have no other , did seem rather misapplied . And ...
Page 51
... called roses and gum cistuses . Other flowers fared little better . No sooner were they in bloom , than he pulled them up for fear they should drop . In doors , matters were still worse . The rooms and furniture were very handsome ...
... called roses and gum cistuses . Other flowers fared little better . No sooner were they in bloom , than he pulled them up for fear they should drop . In doors , matters were still worse . The rooms and furniture were very handsome ...
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