The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 |
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... taken place in bringing forth this Work I am not responsible , as it has chiefly arisen from the circumstance that no literary executor was expressly named in my father's latest will ; and in consequence of the difficulties which thus ...
... taken place in bringing forth this Work I am not responsible , as it has chiefly arisen from the circumstance that no literary executor was expressly named in my father's latest will ; and in consequence of the difficulties which thus ...
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... taken out of the mouth , and reserved for a second regale . My uncle William , who had learnt the whole process from Thomas , and always faithfully observed it , used to call it , in its intermediate state , an old soldier . A sailor ...
... taken out of the mouth , and reserved for a second regale . My uncle William , who had learnt the whole process from Thomas , and always faithfully observed it , used to call it , in its intermediate state , an old soldier . A sailor ...
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... would lead to a theory somewhat akin to that of Bishop Berkeley upon the virtues of tar - water . There are two portraits of my mother , both taken C 2 ROBERT SOUTHEY . 19 LETTER IV His Mother's Birth and Childhood Her Marriage - His Birth.
... would lead to a theory somewhat akin to that of Bishop Berkeley upon the virtues of tar - water . There are two portraits of my mother , both taken C 2 ROBERT SOUTHEY . 19 LETTER IV His Mother's Birth and Childhood Her Marriage - His Birth.
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Robert Southey Charles Cuthbert Southey. There are two portraits of my mother , both taken by Robert Hancock in 1798. My brother Tom has the one ; the other hangs opposite me where I am now seated in my usual position at my desk ...
Robert Southey Charles Cuthbert Southey. There are two portraits of my mother , both taken by Robert Hancock in 1798. My brother Tom has the one ; the other hangs opposite me where I am now seated in my usual position at my desk ...
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... taken to be christened , nor the faces of the persons who were present at that ceremony . But he was an extraordinary child , who , though he neither danced nor sung nor preached before he was born ( all which certain other saints are ...
... taken to be christened , nor the faces of the persons who were present at that ceremony . But he was an extraordinary child , who , though he neither danced nor sung nor preached before he was born ( all which certain other saints are ...
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