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 8
... delight of four by honours , and a little snug quiet scandal be- tween the deals ; for affected gentility and real starvation . This should have been its destiny ; but fate has been unpropitious : it belongs to a plump , merry ...
... delight of four by honours , and a little snug quiet scandal be- tween the deals ; for affected gentility and real starvation . This should have been its destiny ; but fate has been unpropitious : it belongs to a plump , merry ...
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... delight I used to take down those dear books ! It was an old edition ; perhaps that very first edition which , as Mrs. Barbauld says , the fine ladies used to hold up to one another at Ranelagh , —and adorned with prints not certainly ...
... delight I used to take down those dear books ! It was an old edition ; perhaps that very first edition which , as Mrs. Barbauld says , the fine ladies used to hold up to one another at Ranelagh , —and adorned with prints not certainly ...
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... delight , pointed out all the beauties , selected her own favourite parts , especially a certain square rose - bud ... delightful than to sit on the steep brow of the hill , amongst the fragrant heath- 1 LUCY . 23.
... delight , pointed out all the beauties , selected her own favourite parts , especially a certain square rose - bud ... delightful than to sit on the steep brow of the hill , amongst the fragrant heath- 1 LUCY . 23.
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... delight- ful but somewhat fanciful writings , brought into general view many old sports and cus- toms , some of which , indeed , still linger about the remote counties , familiar as local peculi- arities to their inhabitants , whilst ...
... delight- ful but somewhat fanciful writings , brought into general view many old sports and cus- toms , some of which , indeed , still linger about the remote counties , familiar as local peculi- arities to their inhabitants , whilst ...
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... delight that it looks so well , and re- gret that there is no one to look at it . That monument alone was worth losing our way for . But cross two fields more , and up a quiet lane , and we are at the Maying , announced afar off by the ...
... delight that it looks so well , and re- gret that there is no one to look at it . That monument alone was worth losing our way for . But cross two fields more , and up a quiet lane , and we are at the Maying , announced afar off by the ...
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