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 23
... dear old place ? Poor thing , I thought of her all the time that I was working them ! Don't you like the fir - cones ? " After this , I looked at the landscape almost as lovingly as Lucy herself . er , a punisher ! Ah ! she would rather ...
... dear old place ? Poor thing , I thought of her all the time that I was working them ! Don't you like the fir - cones ? " After this , I looked at the landscape almost as lovingly as Lucy herself . er , a punisher ! Ah ! she would rather ...
Page 37
... dear home , and his dear ing or singing ; but still the ice was broken ; children ; Charlotte's lover , too , was ordained , that rich , low , mellow voice , unrivalled in and was impatient to possess his promised pathos and sweetness ...
... dear home , and his dear ing or singing ; but still the ice was broken ; children ; Charlotte's lover , too , was ordained , that rich , low , mellow voice , unrivalled in and was impatient to possess his promised pathos and sweetness ...
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... dear , and stole one of her fair ringlets in return . " This is the curl which William used to admire , " said she : " have you no message for poor Wil- liam ? " - Poor Ellen ! her blushes spoke , and the tears that dropped from her ...
... dear , and stole one of her fair ringlets in return . " This is the curl which William used to admire , " said she : " have you no message for poor Wil- liam ? " - Poor Ellen ! her blushes spoke , and the tears that dropped from her ...
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... Dear in every phrase and combination . I believe old soul ! I have several of them still . it is an effect of association , from the little slips in her grammar , that I have contracted a most unscholar - like prejudice in favour of ...
... Dear in every phrase and combination . I believe old soul ! I have several of them still . it is an effect of association , from the little slips in her grammar , that I have contracted a most unscholar - like prejudice in favour of ...
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... dear mother had furnished her ; but in her younger days she had seen or heard parts at least of a variety of books , and enter- ed into them with a very keen though uncriti- cal relish . Her chief favourites were , the Pilgrim's ...
... dear mother had furnished her ; but in her younger days she had seen or heard parts at least of a variety of books , and enter- ed into them with a very keen though uncriti- cal relish . Her chief favourites were , the Pilgrim's ...
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