New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 98Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1853 |
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... tell Of a wonderful thing that Bat Pigeon befel : A Barber at Ripon , in Yorkshire , was he , And as keen in his craft as his best blade could be . II . Now Bat had a fancy , -a strange one , you'll own , — Instead of a brass bowl to ...
... tell Of a wonderful thing that Bat Pigeon befel : A Barber at Ripon , in Yorkshire , was he , And as keen in his craft as his best blade could be . II . Now Bat had a fancy , -a strange one , you'll own , — Instead of a brass bowl to ...
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... tell you , it's very different when you're alone in a large , dark , solitary room ; reported to be haunted . I don't think it any reproach to my manhood to confess that I have felt uneasy under such circumstances . " what guess honour ...
... tell you , it's very different when you're alone in a large , dark , solitary room ; reported to be haunted . I don't think it any reproach to my manhood to confess that I have felt uneasy under such circumstances . " what guess honour ...
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... telling him at the same time how well it became him ? -and wondered what had detained him so late ? -she was quite content when informed that all would be explained by - and - by . Nay , she was more than content , for was he not 16 The ...
... telling him at the same time how well it became him ? -and wondered what had detained him so late ? -she was quite content when informed that all would be explained by - and - by . Nay , she was more than content , for was he not 16 The ...
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... telling me he had informed Lady B. of his having given me his memoirs for the purpose of their being published after his death , and offering the perusal of them in case she might wish to confute any of his statements . Her note in ...
... telling me he had informed Lady B. of his having given me his memoirs for the purpose of their being published after his death , and offering the perusal of them in case she might wish to confute any of his statements . Her note in ...
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... tell me Homer made Virgil , ' I answer , Then it is his best work ; ' so of Words- worth it may be said , if he wrote the third canto of Childe Harold , ' it his best work . " 6 6 C " A very characteristic story of Sheridan is fathered ...
... tell me Homer made Virgil , ' I answer , Then it is his best work ; ' so of Words- worth it may be said , if he wrote the third canto of Childe Harold , ' it his best work . " 6 6 C " A very characteristic story of Sheridan is fathered ...
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