National Review, Volume 3Robert Theobold, 1856 |
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Page 4
... course . He supplies a short preface , insisting on one or two characteristics made sufficiently obvious in the volu- minous pages of the diary , quotes from the biographies of Scott and Byron one or two tributes to his genius , and ...
... course . He supplies a short preface , insisting on one or two characteristics made sufficiently obvious in the volu- minous pages of the diary , quotes from the biographies of Scott and Byron one or two tributes to his genius , and ...
Page 7
... course , to my father and mother ) to re- tire , on the evenings of our meetings , to the little closet beyond the bed - room , and there hold our sittings . In addition to the other im- portant proceedings that occupied us , each ...
... course , to my father and mother ) to re- tire , on the evenings of our meetings , to the little closet beyond the bed - room , and there hold our sittings . In addition to the other im- portant proceedings that occupied us , each ...
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... course he is received with all the hospitality and courtesy of a stranger ; but if he attempts to incorporate himself with the body , he is at once looked on as an interloper . He must be a man of either not very high spirit , or not ...
... course he is received with all the hospitality and courtesy of a stranger ; but if he attempts to incorporate himself with the body , he is at once looked on as an interloper . He must be a man of either not very high spirit , or not ...
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... course which to his own ideas of honour or propriety seemed the true one . And his sense of propriety was nice , and his spirit of independence high . His Life of Lord Byron is a good one , and he steered his course with much tact ...
... course which to his own ideas of honour or propriety seemed the true one . And his sense of propriety was nice , and his spirit of independence high . His Life of Lord Byron is a good one , and he steered his course with much tact ...
Page 23
... course of this year he moved to Mayfield Cottage , near Ashbourne , in Derbyshire , where he was nearer town , and out of the way of his fine friends at and in the neigh- bourhood of Donnington , who became expensive , as fine friends ...
... course of this year he moved to Mayfield Cottage , near Ashbourne , in Derbyshire , where he was nearer town , and out of the way of his fine friends at and in the neigh- bourhood of Donnington , who became expensive , as fine friends ...
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