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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... equally clear of Elizabethan quaintness and of modern Della - cruscanism , which , as some hold , indicate an exhausted and artificial state of society , in which the drama- the hearty , bold , natural drama - has no exist ence . At all ...
... equally clear of Elizabethan quaintness and of modern Della - cruscanism , which , as some hold , indicate an exhausted and artificial state of society , in which the drama- the hearty , bold , natural drama - has no exist ence . At all ...
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... equally success- ful : none of her ducks and turkeys ever died of neglect or carelessness , or , to use the phrase of the poultry - yard on such occasions , of " ill luck . " Hannah's fowls never dreamed of sliding out of the world in ...
... equally success- ful : none of her ducks and turkeys ever died of neglect or carelessness , or , to use the phrase of the poultry - yard on such occasions , of " ill luck . " Hannah's fowls never dreamed of sliding out of the world in ...
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... equally to add to the squatness of the real machine : both were lean , wrinkled , withered , and old ; both enveloped their aged persons in the richest silks , displayed over large hoops , and stays the tightest and stiffest that ever ...
... equally to add to the squatness of the real machine : both were lean , wrinkled , withered , and old ; both enveloped their aged persons in the richest silks , displayed over large hoops , and stays the tightest and stiffest that ever ...
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... equally at home meat and drink and sleep to her . She likes there ; for though she knows little of books , nothing else . Eating is a sad interruption . she has , in the course of an up - and - down life , For the tea - table she has ...
... equally at home meat and drink and sleep to her . She likes there ; for though she knows little of books , nothing else . Eating is a sad interruption . she has , in the course of an up - and - down life , For the tea - table she has ...
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... equally with that dear friend . Thus they lived in peace and harmony ; Charlotte's bolder tem- per and higher spirits leading and guiding in all common points , whilst on the more im- portant she implicitly yielded to Ellen's judg ment ...
... equally with that dear friend . Thus they lived in peace and harmony ; Charlotte's bolder tem- per and higher spirits leading and guiding in all common points , whilst on the more im- portant she implicitly yielded to Ellen's judg ment ...
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