Literature in Letters; Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and Morals, Illustrated in the Correspondence of Eminent PersonsD. Appleton, 1866 - 520 pages |
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... hear it , " lest the beautiful ideal of those illustrious persons should be disfigured by incongruous features . " In the distribution of the letters , some have been found which could have been referred to either of several titles . An ...
... hear it , " lest the beautiful ideal of those illustrious persons should be disfigured by incongruous features . " In the distribution of the letters , some have been found which could have been referred to either of several titles . An ...
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... hear of in our nursery , as much laid aside and forgotten as crumpled ribands . To speak plainly , I am very sorry for the forlorn state of matri- mony , which is as much ridiculed by our young ladies as it used to be by young fellows ...
... hear of in our nursery , as much laid aside and forgotten as crumpled ribands . To speak plainly , I am very sorry for the forlorn state of matri- mony , which is as much ridiculed by our young ladies as it used to be by young fellows ...
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... hear of , which carries a little mirth with it , and indeed is very odd . Two wealthy citizens are lately dead , and left their estates , one to a Blue - coat boy , and the other to a Blue - coat girl , in Christ's Hos- pital . The ...
... hear of , which carries a little mirth with it , and indeed is very odd . Two wealthy citizens are lately dead , and left their estates , one to a Blue - coat boy , and the other to a Blue - coat girl , in Christ's Hos- pital . The ...
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... hear from you , my dearest soul , and truly think your absence already an age . I have no mind to my gold plate ; here is no table to set it on ; but if that does not come , I desire you would bid Betty Forster send the silver glass I ...
... hear from you , my dearest soul , and truly think your absence already an age . I have no mind to my gold plate ; here is no table to set it on ; but if that does not come , I desire you would bid Betty Forster send the silver glass I ...
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... hear a grave man talk so strangely , and asked him , as seriously as I could , how old he might be himself . He said that he was not quite 200 , but that he was one of the youngest at the table . He said that the secret of carrying on ...
... hear a grave man talk so strangely , and asked him , as seriously as I could , how old he might be himself . He said that he was not quite 200 , but that he was one of the youngest at the table . He said that the secret of carrying on ...
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