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... Short Stories . Short Stories and Selections . Southern Orators : Selections . Southern Poets : Sections . Southey's Life of Ne.son . Spenser's Faerie Queene , Book I. Stevenson's Kidnapped . Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae ...
... Short Stories . Short Stories and Selections . Southern Orators : Selections . Southern Poets : Sections . Southey's Life of Ne.son . Spenser's Faerie Queene , Book I. Stevenson's Kidnapped . Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae ...
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... short and simple one , for it was a life of secluded studiousness spent in the companionship of books , art , and nature . At ten years of age he entered Eton , where he was placed in the care of a maternal uncle , an assistant master ...
... short and simple one , for it was a life of secluded studiousness spent in the companionship of books , art , and nature . At ten years of age he entered Eton , where he was placed in the care of a maternal uncle , an assistant master ...
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... short , as one critic has expressed it , " The twelve years which he spent in the Temple were , if not entirely devoted to classical pursuits , yet so much engrossed by them as to add little or nothing to the slender stock of legal ...
... short , as one critic has expressed it , " The twelve years which he spent in the Temple were , if not entirely devoted to classical pursuits , yet so much engrossed by them as to add little or nothing to the slender stock of legal ...
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... short poems , but hardly with the view of becoming a literary character . He now worked earnestly , and in 1782 published his first volume . After the fashion of the day it consisted almost wholly of didactic poems on con- versation ...
... short poems , but hardly with the view of becoming a literary character . He now worked earnestly , and in 1782 published his first volume . After the fashion of the day it consisted almost wholly of didactic poems on con- versation ...
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... short poems were produced , among them " Lines on the Receipt of my Mother's Picture , " " To Mary , " and " The Castaway . " In 1794 a pension of £ 300 was granted him by the government in recognition of his con- tribution to English ...
... short poems were produced , among them " Lines on the Receipt of my Mother's Picture , " " To Mary , " and " The Castaway . " In 1794 a pension of £ 300 was granted him by the government in recognition of his con- tribution to English ...
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