Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 4Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851 - Anecdotes |
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... French cookery , which pleases their diseased and pampered palates , when they are not healthy enough to relish the flavour of beef & mutton . My inducements are - to avoid any possible sameness of expression , any mannerism , and to ...
... French cookery , which pleases their diseased and pampered palates , when they are not healthy enough to relish the flavour of beef & mutton . My inducements are - to avoid any possible sameness of expression , any mannerism , and to ...
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... French black- smith . Ode . Some of these the reader will find worked up in his Poems , e . g . " The Pig , " p . 162. " Hu- ron's Address to the Dead , " p . 132. Ed . in one volume . - J . W. W. A poem is possible upon a candle with ...
... French black- smith . Ode . Some of these the reader will find worked up in his Poems , e . g . " The Pig , " p . 162. " Hu- ron's Address to the Dead , " p . 132. Ed . in one volume . - J . W. W. A poem is possible upon a candle with ...
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... French were killed with pick- axes by the peasantry hewing on their ar- mour . Capture of the Maid . As before ye have heard somewhat of this damsels strange beginning and proceedings , so , sith the ending of all such miracle - IDEAS ...
... French were killed with pick- axes by the peasantry hewing on their ar- mour . Capture of the Maid . As before ye have heard somewhat of this damsels strange beginning and proceedings , so , sith the ending of all such miracle - IDEAS ...
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... French , p . 195 , English translation ( this must be a curious work ) . Maimbourg , Hist . de la dé- cadence de l'Emp . après Charlemagne , 1. 4 , p . 418. - Owain Gwynez , died 1169 . Cowardice . " A SOLDIER without courage is like a ...
... French , p . 195 , English translation ( this must be a curious work ) . Maimbourg , Hist . de la dé- cadence de l'Emp . après Charlemagne , 1. 4 , p . 418. - Owain Gwynez , died 1169 . Cowardice . " A SOLDIER without courage is like a ...
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... French legislators have done as much as the nature of the people would permit . Who can carve a Venus de Medicis in free- stone ? WHEN the cable of happiness is cut , surely it is better that the vessel should sink at once , than be ...
... French legislators have done as much as the nature of the people would permit . Who can carve a Venus de Medicis in free- stone ? WHEN the cable of happiness is cut , surely it is better that the vessel should sink at once , than be ...
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