Littell's Living Age, Volume 164Living Age Company Incorporated, 1885 |
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... letters , full of wondrous news , Which , as the housewife phrased it , were throughout , ' The prettiest letters that were ever seen . " Both parents read them with rejoicing hearts . So many months passed on : and once again The ...
... letters , full of wondrous news , Which , as the housewife phrased it , were throughout , ' The prettiest letters that were ever seen . " Both parents read them with rejoicing hearts . So many months passed on : and once again The ...
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... letters to the Blounts . The un- happy victims were condemned to eat Westphalia ham in a morning , ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks , come home in the heat of the day with a fever , and ( what is worse a hundred times ) ...
... letters to the Blounts . The un- happy victims were condemned to eat Westphalia ham in a morning , ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks , come home in the heat of the day with a fever , and ( what is worse a hundred times ) ...
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... letters to Mrs. Howard give amusing glimpses of Molly Lepell's marriage was happier than might have been anticipated from the character of the bridegroom . Lady Louisa Stuart in her " Introductory Anecdotes " to her grandmother's letters ...
... letters to Mrs. Howard give amusing glimpses of Molly Lepell's marriage was happier than might have been anticipated from the character of the bridegroom . Lady Louisa Stuart in her " Introductory Anecdotes " to her grandmother's letters ...
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... letter Lady Hervey recom- mends Mrs. Howard to read " Cabala , ” which she says contains some " mighty pretty letters from the famous Earl of Essex ; and very artful , clever ones from Sir Francis Bacon , who , though a sad fellow in ...
... letter Lady Hervey recom- mends Mrs. Howard to read " Cabala , ” which she says contains some " mighty pretty letters from the famous Earl of Essex ; and very artful , clever ones from Sir Francis Bacon , who , though a sad fellow in ...
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... letters to a very different correspondent , the Rev. Edmund Morris , a country clergy . man , tutor to her sons , was published by Murray in 1821. The first letter , written in 1742 , is from Ickworth , which was al- most always her ...
... letters to a very different correspondent , the Rev. Edmund Morris , a country clergy . man , tutor to her sons , was published by Murray in 1821. The first letter , written in 1742 , is from Ickworth , which was al- most always her ...
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