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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... green door with the brass knocker , and the somewhat prim but very civil person , who is sending off a labouring man with sirs and curtsies enough for a prince of the blood . Those are the curate's lodgings - apartments , his landlady ...
... green door with the brass knocker , and the somewhat prim but very civil person , who is sending off a labouring man with sirs and curtsies enough for a prince of the blood . Those are the curate's lodgings - apartments , his landlady ...
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... green , the tips of whose high outer branches droop down with such a crisp and garland - like richness , and the oak , whose stately form is just now so splendidly adorned by the sunny colouring of the young leaves . Turning again up ...
... green , the tips of whose high outer branches droop down with such a crisp and garland - like richness , and the oak , whose stately form is just now so splendidly adorned by the sunny colouring of the young leaves . Turning again up ...
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... green sheltered lane , overhung tions , such as might become a great misfor- with trees like an avenue , that leads to the tune . Of course there was something ludi- great farm at M. , where ten or twelve years crous in his courtliness ...
... green sheltered lane , overhung tions , such as might become a great misfor- with trees like an avenue , that leads to the tune . Of course there was something ludi- great farm at M. , where ten or twelve years crous in his courtliness ...
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... green hilarity , and harmonized delightfully with court before the door , with a little ridiculous the smiling kindness of his mother . His strutter of a cock at their head , who imitated Spensers and Thomsons , too , looked well the ...
... green hilarity , and harmonized delightfully with court before the door , with a little ridiculous the smiling kindness of his mother . His strutter of a cock at their head , who imitated Spensers and Thomsons , too , looked well the ...
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... green intermixed with brown stitches , which Lucy explained , not to me.- " Don't you see the fir - cones , Sir ? Don't you remember how fond she used to be of picking them up in her little basket at the dear old place ? Poor thing , I ...
... green intermixed with brown stitches , which Lucy explained , not to me.- " Don't you see the fir - cones , Sir ? Don't you remember how fond she used to be of picking them up in her little basket at the dear old place ? Poor thing , I ...
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