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 11
... standing , some sitting , some stretched on the grass , all taking a delightful interest in the game ; the other , a merry group of little boys , at an humble distance , for whom even cricket is scarcely lively enough , shouting ...
... standing , some sitting , some stretched on the grass , all taking a delightful interest in the game ; the other , a merry group of little boys , at an humble distance , for whom even cricket is scarcely lively enough , shouting ...
Page 14
... standing on the brink in an ecs- tasy of joy and wonder ! Oh ! what happy spectators ! And what a happy performer ! They admiring , he admired , with an ardour and sincerity never excited by all the quad- rilles and the spread - eagles ...
... standing on the brink in an ecs- tasy of joy and wonder ! Oh ! what happy spectators ! And what a happy performer ! They admiring , he admired , with an ardour and sincerity never excited by all the quad- rilles and the spread - eagles ...
Page 19
... standing overseer and churchwarden ; he ruled his own hamlet like a despotic monarch , and took a prime minister's share in the government of the large parish to which it was attached ; and one of the gentlemen , whose estates he ma ...
... standing overseer and churchwarden ; he ruled his own hamlet like a despotic monarch , and took a prime minister's share in the government of the large parish to which it was attached ; and one of the gentlemen , whose estates he ma ...
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... standing in the he knows , or than any one knows , of streets , road with a slender shrewd - looking boy , apt and gates , and sites of temples , which , by the and ready enough to have passed for the page . by , the worthy pedagogue ...
... standing in the he knows , or than any one knows , of streets , road with a slender shrewd - looking boy , apt and gates , and sites of temples , which , by the and ready enough to have passed for the page . by , the worthy pedagogue ...
Page 32
... standing amongst the high elms- the old farm - house , which always , I don't know why , carries back my imagination to Shakspeare's days . It is a long , low , irregular building , with one room at an angle from the house , covered ...
... standing amongst the high elms- the old farm - house , which always , I don't know why , carries back my imagination to Shakspeare's days . It is a long , low , irregular building , with one room at an angle from the house , covered ...
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