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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... thought of herself or of what others would think of her ; had never been afflicted with the besetting sins of her station , a dread of the vulgar , or an aspiration after the genteel . Those " words of fear " had never disturbed her ...
... thought of herself or of what others would think of her ; had never been afflicted with the besetting sins of her station , a dread of the vulgar , or an aspiration after the genteel . Those " words of fear " had never disturbed her ...
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... 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 be information ; I should never ...
... 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 be information ; I should never ...
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... thought it ! I suppose I should have thought any place so where I had spent eighteen happy years . But it was really pretty . A large , heavy , white house , in the simplest style , surrounded by fine oaks and elms , and tall massy ...
... thought it ! I suppose I should have thought any place so where I had spent eighteen happy years . But it was really pretty . A large , heavy , white house , in the simplest style , surrounded by fine oaks and elms , and tall massy ...
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... thought be- comes poetry , and feeling religion . - Then it is that we are happy and good . Oh that my whole life could pass so , floating on blissful and innocent sensation , enjoying in peace and gratitude the common blessings of ...
... thought be- comes poetry , and feeling religion . - Then it is that we are happy and good . Oh that my whole life could pass so , floating on blissful and innocent sensation , enjoying in peace and gratitude the common blessings of ...
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... thought of herself . So constituted , it may be imagined that she was , to all who really knew her , an object of intense admiration and love . Servants , chil- dren , poor people , all adored Miss Ellen . She had other friends in her ...
... thought of herself . So constituted , it may be imagined that she was , to all who really knew her , an object of intense admiration and love . Servants , chil- dren , poor people , all adored Miss Ellen . She had other friends in her ...
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