The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 |
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... perhaps , are not enough acquainted with the mode of chewing tobacco , to know that in vulgar life a quid commonly goes through two editions ; and that after it has been done with , it is taken out of the mouth , and reserved for a ...
... perhaps , are not enough acquainted with the mode of chewing tobacco , to know that in vulgar life a quid commonly goes through two editions ; and that after it has been done with , it is taken out of the mouth , and reserved for a ...
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... perhaps , a finer feeling of metre , and more command of it , than any of her contemporaries . The other is , that my mother , who had a good ear for music , was taught by her father to whistle ; and he succeeded in making her such a ...
... perhaps , a finer feeling of metre , and more command of it , than any of her contemporaries . The other is , that my mother , who had a good ear for music , was taught by her father to whistle ; and he succeeded in making her such a ...
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... perhaps , in sober re- flection , may be justly thought so , befell her soon afterwards , an early removal to a better world . She died of hydrocephalus , a disease to which the most promising children are the most liable . Happily ...
... perhaps , in sober re- flection , may be justly thought so , befell her soon afterwards , an early removal to a better world . She died of hydrocephalus , a disease to which the most promising children are the most liable . Happily ...
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... is to say , late hours for a child , which I reckon among the privations ( having always had the healthiest propensity for going to bed betimes ) ; late hours of rising , which were less painful perhaps 34 ETAT . 2-6 . EARLY LIFE OF.
... is to say , late hours for a child , which I reckon among the privations ( having always had the healthiest propensity for going to bed betimes ) ; late hours of rising , which were less painful perhaps 34 ETAT . 2-6 . EARLY LIFE OF.
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Robert Southey Charles Cuthbert Southey. late hours of rising , which were less painful perhaps , but in other respects worse . My aunt chose that I should sleep with her , and this subjected me to a double evil . She used to have her ...
Robert Southey Charles Cuthbert Southey. late hours of rising , which were less painful perhaps , but in other respects worse . My aunt chose that I should sleep with her , and this subjected me to a double evil . She used to have her ...
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