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... bound in the flowered and gilt Dutch paper of former days . As soon as I could read , which was very early , Mr. Newberry presented me with a whole set of these books , more than twenty in number : I dare say they were in Miss Tyler's ...
... bound in the flowered and gilt Dutch paper of former days . As soon as I could read , which was very early , Mr. Newberry presented me with a whole set of these books , more than twenty in number : I dare say they were in Miss Tyler's ...
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... to improve it ! So vanity , vanity will come from my lips , and poor Southey will either be cooked for a Cherokee , or oysterised by a tiger . " I have finished transcribing Joan , and bound her 196 ÆTAT . 20 . LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE.
... to improve it ! So vanity , vanity will come from my lips , and poor Southey will either be cooked for a Cherokee , or oysterised by a tiger . " I have finished transcribing Joan , and bound her 196 ÆTAT . 20 . LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE.
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Robert Southey Charles Cuthbert Southey. " I have finished transcribing Joan , and bound her in marble paper with green ribbon , and now am about copying all my remainables to carry to Oxford . Thence once more a clear field , and then ...
Robert Southey Charles Cuthbert Southey. " I have finished transcribing Joan , and bound her in marble paper with green ribbon , and now am about copying all my remainables to carry to Oxford . Thence once more a clear field , and then ...
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... bound , there is a curious piece of information to annex to it . . . . I hope to become master of the two languages , and to procure some of the choicest au- thors ; from their miscellanies and collections that I cannot purchase , I ...
... bound , there is a curious piece of information to annex to it . . . . I hope to become master of the two languages , and to procure some of the choicest au- thors ; from their miscellanies and collections that I cannot purchase , I ...
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... bound decently , & c . ? I left it with Cottle , to send with your copy : he has the transcript of it himself , which he begged with most friendly devotion , and , I believe , values as much as a monk does the parings of his tutelary ...
... bound decently , & c . ? I left it with Cottle , to send with your copy : he has the transcript of it himself , which he begged with most friendly devotion , and , I believe , values as much as a monk does the parings of his tutelary ...
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