The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey, Volume 11849 |
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... possessed some taste for letters , and his library was well provided with the professional literature of that age . Shobdon , though a remote place , gave him great opportunities of society : Lord Bateman resided there , in one of the ...
... possessed some taste for letters , and his library was well provided with the professional literature of that age . Shobdon , though a remote place , gave him great opportunities of society : Lord Bateman resided there , in one of the ...
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... possessed the skill , I should delight in tracing one - my memory would accurately serve . If I have made myself understood , you will perceive that the back court formed a square with the house . Behind both was a piece of waste ground ...
... possessed the skill , I should delight in tracing one - my memory would accurately serve . If I have made myself understood , you will perceive that the back court formed a square with the house . Behind both was a piece of waste ground ...
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... possessed everybody . My mother was so taken with the gentleness of his manners , and the regularity and mildness of his features , that she was very desirous I should become intimate with him . He grew up to be a puppy , sported a tail ...
... possessed everybody . My mother was so taken with the gentleness of his manners , and the regularity and mildness of his features , that she was very desirous I should become intimate with him . He grew up to be a puppy , sported a tail ...
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... possessed beyond the size of Mr. Newberry's gilt regiment , was given me soon after this visit by Mrs. Dolignon . It was Hoole's translation of the Gerusalemme Liberata . She had heard me speak of it with a delight and interest above my ...
... possessed beyond the size of Mr. Newberry's gilt regiment , was given me soon after this visit by Mrs. Dolignon . It was Hoole's translation of the Gerusalemme Liberata . She had heard me speak of it with a delight and interest above my ...
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... possessed had passed away as irrevocably as his youth , and I continued under the usher's care , who kept me in the Eclogues so long , that I was heartily sick of them , and I believe have never looked in them from that time . Over and ...
... possessed had passed away as irrevocably as his youth , and I continued under the usher's care , who kept me in the Eclogues so long , that I was heartily sick of them , and I believe have never looked in them from that time . Over and ...
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