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... Heaven , The Miser , Pollok , 167 Moore , 254 Secret Devotion , Moore , 254 ick's Scull , Shakspeare , 169 The Soul ... Heavens , Scenes in Italy , Lady Morgan , 176 Affection for the Dead , Irving , 177 Character of Bonaparte , Phillips ...
... Heaven , The Miser , Pollok , 167 Moore , 254 Secret Devotion , Moore , 254 ick's Scull , Shakspeare , 169 The Soul ... Heavens , Scenes in Italy , Lady Morgan , 176 Affection for the Dead , Irving , 177 Character of Bonaparte , Phillips ...
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... heaven , leaven , seven , eleven , and many others , the unaccented vowel e should not be sounded . A far more fruitful source of errour , however , in which the sound of the unaccented vowel e is either suppressed or per verted , is ...
... heaven , leaven , seven , eleven , and many others , the unaccented vowel e should not be sounded . A far more fruitful source of errour , however , in which the sound of the unaccented vowel e is either suppressed or per verted , is ...
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... Heaven and earth will witness , If Rome must fall , that we are innocent . The Assyrian came down , like the wolf on the fold , And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold . The word and , in these and similar examples , is ...
... Heaven and earth will witness , If Rome must fall , that we are innocent . The Assyrian came down , like the wolf on the fold , And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold . The word and , in these and similar examples , is ...
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... heaven . Between two worlds life hovers like a star ' Twixt night and morn , upon the horizon's verge . Chillon , the favourite and the flower , Most cherished since his natal hour , His mother's image in his face , The infant love of ...
... heaven . Between two worlds life hovers like a star ' Twixt night and morn , upon the horizon's verge . Chillon , the favourite and the flower , Most cherished since his natal hour , His mother's image in his face , The infant love of ...
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... heavens ! from high the dewy nectar pour , " And in soft silence shed the kindly shower . " A strange perversion of the sounds of t and d is sometimes made in words like the following : duty , produce , fortitude ; which are not ...
... heavens ! from high the dewy nectar pour , " And in soft silence shed the kindly shower . " A strange perversion of the sounds of t and d is sometimes made in words like the following : duty , produce , fortitude ; which are not ...
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