Gossip about Letters and Letter-writersEdmonston and Douglas, 1873 - 256 pages |
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... passed to God on Monday last past with the greatest pain that ever I saw man ; and on Tuesday Sir John Heveningham yede ( went ) to his church and heard three masses , and came home again never merrier , and said to his wife that he ...
... passed to God on Monday last past with the greatest pain that ever I saw man ; and on Tuesday Sir John Heveningham yede ( went ) to his church and heard three masses , and came home again never merrier , and said to his wife that he ...
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... passed all his life , ' says Vigneul Marville , ' in writing letters , without ever catching the right characteristics of that style ; ' and even those addressed to his sister are so laboured and artificial , that they are well ...
... passed all his life , ' says Vigneul Marville , ' in writing letters , without ever catching the right characteristics of that style ; ' and even those addressed to his sister are so laboured and artificial , that they are well ...
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... passed for fine letter - writing . Every nerve was strained to outdo each other in carving all thoughts into a filigree work of rhetoric ; and the amœbean contest was like that between two village cocks from neighbour- ing farms ...
... passed for fine letter - writing . Every nerve was strained to outdo each other in carving all thoughts into a filigree work of rhetoric ; and the amœbean contest was like that between two village cocks from neighbour- ing farms ...
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... passed in this country of liberty and delight , and money and good company ! I go on answering your letter . . . . And yet , my Lord , I pre- tend to value money as little as you ; and I will call five hundred witnesses ( if you will ...
... passed in this country of liberty and delight , and money and good company ! I go on answering your letter . . . . And yet , my Lord , I pre- tend to value money as little as you ; and I will call five hundred witnesses ( if you will ...
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... . 1750 ) . To say truth , I think myself an uncommon kind of creature , being an old woman without superstition , peev- ishness , or censoriousness , I am so far from thinking Thomas Gray . 51 my youth was passed in an.
... . 1750 ) . To say truth , I think myself an uncommon kind of creature , being an old woman without superstition , peev- ishness , or censoriousness , I am so far from thinking Thomas Gray . 51 my youth was passed in an.
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