Gems of Literature, Elegant, Rare, and SuggestiveWilliam P. Nimmo, 1866 - 147 pages |
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... Monarch , Christian Patriotism , Immortality , Reflections in Westminster Abbey , Iona , Greece , Address to a Mummy , Love , Winter Lightning , The Toilet , A Noble Reply , Edmund Burke , The Introduction of Gunpowder , The Soldier's ...
... Monarch , Christian Patriotism , Immortality , Reflections in Westminster Abbey , Iona , Greece , Address to a Mummy , Love , Winter Lightning , The Toilet , A Noble Reply , Edmund Burke , The Introduction of Gunpowder , The Soldier's ...
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... Yes , he is ! Well , his mouth's shut up at last , that's one comfort ! " Yes , Legree ; but who shall shut up that. THE LAST OF THE POOR SLAVE . THE LAST OF THE PROUD MONARCH . REFLECTIONS IN WESTMINSTER. 8 GEMS OF LITERATURE .
... Yes , he is ! Well , his mouth's shut up at last , that's one comfort ! " Yes , Legree ; but who shall shut up that. THE LAST OF THE POOR SLAVE . THE LAST OF THE PROUD MONARCH . REFLECTIONS IN WESTMINSTER. 8 GEMS OF LITERATURE .
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... Death has found thee . No palace - walls or life- guards , gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest ceremonial. THE LAST OF THE PROUD MONARCH . REFLECTIONS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY . GREECE . ( Byron . 10 GEMS OF LITERATURE .
... Death has found thee . No palace - walls or life- guards , gorgeous tapestries or gilt buckram of stiffest ceremonial. THE LAST OF THE PROUD MONARCH . REFLECTIONS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY . GREECE . ( Byron . 10 GEMS OF LITERATURE .
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... monarchs who their youth betray By acts their age too late would wish undone . And yet dominion was not his design ; We owe that blessing not to him but Heaven , Which to fair acts unsought rewards did join , Rewards that less to him ...
... monarchs who their youth betray By acts their age too late would wish undone . And yet dominion was not his design ; We owe that blessing not to him but Heaven , Which to fair acts unsought rewards did join , Rewards that less to him ...
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... monarch ? His rival at his feet , his calumniator self - condemned , the lips which had rudely summoned him to abdicate the Apostolic crown now suing to him for the recovery of the Imperial diadem , the exaltation in his person of ...
... monarch ? His rival at his feet , his calumniator self - condemned , the lips which had rudely summoned him to abdicate the Apostolic crown now suing to him for the recovery of the Imperial diadem , the exaltation in his person of ...
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