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... English tenures . The removal from Wellington to a lonely hamlet seems to have brought my grandfather within the pale of the Established Church , for he had been bred up as a Dissenter . ( The old sword , therefore , was pro- bably ...
... English tenures . The removal from Wellington to a lonely hamlet seems to have brought my grandfather within the pale of the Established Church , for he had been bred up as a Dissenter . ( The old sword , therefore , was pro- bably ...
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... and the mistress of which , some ten years later , was thought the best school near Bristol ( where Mrs. Siddons sent her daughter ) , spoke , to my perfect " " recollection , much such English as this . My mother 20 EARLY LIFE OF.
... and the mistress of which , some ten years later , was thought the best school near Bristol ( where Mrs. Siddons sent her daughter ) , spoke , to my perfect " " recollection , much such English as this . My mother 20 EARLY LIFE OF.
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Robert Southey Charles Cuthbert Southey. recollection , much such English as this . My mother , I believe , never went to any but a dancing - school , and her state was the more gracious . But her half- sister , Miss Tyler , was placed ...
Robert Southey Charles Cuthbert Southey. recollection , much such English as this . My mother , I believe , never went to any but a dancing - school , and her state was the more gracious . But her half- sister , Miss Tyler , was placed ...
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... English sun can ripen , was there in abundance . Just by the orchard gate was a fine barberry - bush ; and that peculiar odour of its blossoms , which is supposed to injure the wheat within its reach , is still fresh in my remembrance ...
... English sun can ripen , was there in abundance . Just by the orchard gate was a fine barberry - bush ; and that peculiar odour of its blossoms , which is supposed to injure the wheat within its reach , is still fresh in my remembrance ...
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... English , and I should not be able to understand it . This did not appear to me so much a necessary consequence as he sup- posed , and I therefore requested he would let me look at it . It was the quarto edition of '17 , in three ...
... English , and I should not be able to understand it . This did not appear to me so much a necessary consequence as he sup- posed , and I therefore requested he would let me look at it . It was the quarto edition of '17 , in three ...
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