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, 1846 - 672 pages |
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... admiration at my Lizzy , might be a model for a Cupid . How pleasantly the road winds up the hill , with its broad green borders and hedge - rows so thickly timbered ! How finely the evening sun falls on that sandy excavated bank , and ...
... admiration at my Lizzy , might be a model for a Cupid . How pleasantly the road winds up the hill , with its broad green borders and hedge - rows so thickly timbered ! How finely the evening sun falls on that sandy excavated bank , and ...
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... admiring , he admired , with an ardour and sincerity never excited by all the quad- rilles and the spread - eagles of the Seine and the Serpentine . He really skates well though , and I am glad I came this way ; for , with all the ...
... admiring , he admired , with an ardour and sincerity never excited by all the quad- rilles and the spread - eagles of the Seine and the Serpentine . He really skates well though , and I am glad I came this way ; for , with all the ...
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... admirable qualities of its owners . How often I had opened that gate , and how gaily - certain of meeting a smiling welcome - and what a picture of comfort it was ! 66 This excellent person was an old bachelor ; and there was a rumour ...
... admirable qualities of its owners . How often I had opened that gate , and how gaily - certain of meeting a smiling welcome - and what a picture of comfort it was ! 66 This excellent person was an old bachelor ; and there was a rumour ...
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... admirable . They were pretty little round , graceful things , sleek and glossy , and for the most part milk - white , with the small- est heads , and the most dove - like eyes that were ever seen . There was a peculiar sort of innocent ...
... admirable . They were pretty little round , graceful things , sleek and glossy , and for the most part milk - white , with the small- est heads , and the most dove - like eyes that were ever seen . There was a peculiar sort of innocent ...
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... admirable address , or rather the ex- cellent feeling , with which she contrived to unite the most perfect respect with the most cordial and affectionate interest , gave a singular charm to her prattle . No confidence or indul- gence ...
... admirable address , or rather the ex- cellent feeling , with which she contrived to unite the most perfect respect with the most cordial and affectionate interest , gave a singular charm to her prattle . No confidence or indul- gence ...
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