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Page 394
... KEBLE . ' A Memoir of the Rev. John. through the bushes , gave a slight scream , and vanished . " My aunt ! " cried Rose . " Dread- ful ! what will she think ? " 66 ' She won't have long for reflec- tion , at any rate ; in half an hour ...
... KEBLE . ' A Memoir of the Rev. John. through the bushes , gave a slight scream , and vanished . " My aunt ! " cried Rose . " Dread- ful ! what will she think ? " 66 ' She won't have long for reflec- tion , at any rate ; in half an hour ...
Page 399
... a long way with a light heart - which I hope you have , dear reader , for your own sake as well as mine . A LIFE of Keble by Sir John Coleridge is sure 1869. ] 399 Doubles and Quits : a Comedy of Errors . - Conclusion .
... a long way with a light heart - which I hope you have , dear reader , for your own sake as well as mine . A LIFE of Keble by Sir John Coleridge is sure 1869. ] 399 Doubles and Quits : a Comedy of Errors . - Conclusion .
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... Keble could have fallen into no hands better qualified to do it justice . Sir John Coleridge was Keble's friend in boyhood , and lived with him on terms of the closest intimacy till he died . His own modesty leads him , in his ...
... Keble could have fallen into no hands better qualified to do it justice . Sir John Coleridge was Keble's friend in boyhood , and lived with him on terms of the closest intimacy till he died . His own modesty leads him , in his ...
Page 402
... Keble's early education was strictly private . He never went to school at all , but with his younger brother fitted himself for the Uni- versity under the tender care of his father . The old man , himself an ex - Fellow of Corpus ...
... Keble's early education was strictly private . He never went to school at all , but with his younger brother fitted himself for the Uni- versity under the tender care of his father . The old man , himself an ex - Fellow of Corpus ...
Page 403
... Keble's favour the announcement , that had this rule been earlier in force , the prize would have been awarded to him . 66 In describing this interesting pe- riod in his academic career , his bio- grapher says of Keble : " He wrote for ...
... Keble's favour the announcement , that had this rule been earlier in force , the prize would have been awarded to him . 66 In describing this interesting pe- riod in his academic career , his bio- grapher says of Keble : " He wrote for ...
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