The Reliques of Father ProutG. Bell, 1889 - 580 pages |
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... head , I devoted year after year , and was about to become a tolerable proficient in the black letter , when an epistle from Ireland reached me in Furnival's Inn , and altered my prospects materially . This despatch was from an old Ca ...
... head , I devoted year after year , and was about to become a tolerable proficient in the black letter , when an epistle from Ireland reached me in Furnival's Inn , and altered my prospects materially . This despatch was from an old Ca ...
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... head - quarters , Paris , on the Ash Wednesday of that year , five hundred carts laden with herrings , for the use of the camp during Lent , when a party of French noblemen , viz . Xaintraille , Lahire , De la Tour de Chavigny , and the ...
... head - quarters , Paris , on the Ash Wednesday of that year , five hundred carts laden with herrings , for the use of the camp during Lent , when a party of French noblemen , viz . Xaintraille , Lahire , De la Tour de Chavigny , and the ...
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... head has rolled from the scaffold on Tower Hill ; and though he has fed with his discovery more fami- lies , and ... heads . " Here endeth the " Apology , " and so abruptly terminate my notes of Prout's Lenten vindicia . But , alas ...
... head has rolled from the scaffold on Tower Hill ; and though he has fed with his discovery more fami- lies , and ... heads . " Here endeth the " Apology , " and so abruptly terminate my notes of Prout's Lenten vindicia . But , alas ...
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... head and ears into the abundant sources of intellectual refreshment to which we shall soon have access , and from which Frank Creswell , lucky dog ! has drawn such a draught of inspiration . " Sacros ausus recludere fontes ! " for ...
... head and ears into the abundant sources of intellectual refreshment to which we shall soon have access , and from which Frank Creswell , lucky dog ! has drawn such a draught of inspiration . " Sacros ausus recludere fontes ! " for ...
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... head ; " and alighting at the castle - gate , supported by Knapp , he toiled up the winding stairs as well as his lameness would permit , and stood at last , with all his fame around him , in the presence of Prout . The form of mutual ...
... head ; " and alighting at the castle - gate , supported by Knapp , he toiled up the winding stairs as well as his lameness would permit , and stood at last , with all his fame around him , in the presence of Prout . The form of mutual ...
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