Gossip about Letters and Letter-writersEdmonston and Douglas, 1873 - 256 pages |
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... speak sadly ( seriously ) for another farmer . And as for tydings , Philip Berney is 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 ...
... speak sadly ( seriously ) for another farmer . And as for tydings , Philip Berney is 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 ...
Page 16
... speak a truth , never Prince had wife more loyal in all duty , and in all true affection , than you have ever found in Ann Boleyn ; with which name and place I could will- ingly have contented myself , if God and your Grace's pleasure ...
... speak a truth , never Prince had wife more loyal in all duty , and in all true affection , than you have ever found in Ann Boleyn ; with which name and place I could will- ingly have contented myself , if God and your Grace's pleasure ...
Page 32
... dint of affectation . Every one perceives that , in the Letters of a Mother to her Daughter , the public , in a strict sense , is not thought of ; and yet the habit of 6 Madame de Sévigné's Letters . 33 speaking and writing what.
... dint of affectation . Every one perceives that , in the Letters of a Mother to her Daughter , the public , in a strict sense , is not thought of ; and yet the habit of 6 Madame de Sévigné's Letters . 33 speaking and writing what.
Page 33
George Seton. Madame de Sévigné's Letters . 33 speaking and writing what men of wit and taste would desire to hear and read , gives a certain mannerism , I will not say air of effort , even to the letters of Madame de Sévigné . . . . Her ...
George Seton. Madame de Sévigné's Letters . 33 speaking and writing what men of wit and taste would desire to hear and read , gives a certain mannerism , I will not say air of effort , even to the letters of Madame de Sévigné . . . . Her ...
Page 52
... speak ; the Lowlands are worth seeing once , but the mountains are ecstatic , and ought to be visited in pilgrimage once a year . None but those monstrous creatures of God know how to join so much beauty with so much horror . A fig for ...
... speak ; the Lowlands are worth seeing once , but the mountains are ecstatic , and ought to be visited in pilgrimage once a year . None but those monstrous creatures of God know how to join so much beauty with so much horror . A fig for ...
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