Passages from the Life of Charles KnightG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874 - 480 páginas |
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... father and myself ; my proprietary interest in it lasted for fourteen years ; and I continued to be its editor till the end of 1826 , as I had been from its commencement . Looking back upon the August of 1812 , at which time my working ...
... father and myself ; my proprietary interest in it lasted for fourteen years ; and I continued to be its editor till the end of 1826 , as I had been from its commencement . Looking back upon the August of 1812 , at which time my working ...
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... father , has been given as a ward to a certain Captain Blackman . It is a " Legend of Westminster , " and referring to the Commonwealth period , affords room for some interesting local historical gossip . The story is told in a single ...
... father , has been given as a ward to a certain Captain Blackman . It is a " Legend of Westminster , " and referring to the Commonwealth period , affords room for some interesting local historical gossip . The story is told in a single ...
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... father lived , and in which I was born , was close to the great entrance to the lower ward of Windsor Castle , called , after its builder , Henry the Eighth's gateway . I crept down in the dawning of that first day of the year to a sit ...
... father lived , and in which I was born , was close to the great entrance to the lower ward of Windsor Castle , called , after its builder , Henry the Eighth's gateway . I crept down in the dawning of that first day of the year to a sit ...
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... father ; his companion in his few leisure hours ; the object of his incessant solicitude . I cannot remem- ber myself as I was painted at two years old , in a white frock with a black sash - the indication that I had lost my mother ...
... father ; his companion in his few leisure hours ; the object of his incessant solicitude . I cannot remem- ber myself as I was painted at two years old , in a white frock with a black sash - the indication that I had lost my mother ...
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... father . It was not only when the brilliant supporter of Pitt was rising into political importance , but when he had taken his place among the foremost men of his time , that he had a kindly feeling towards his first publisher , often ...
... father . It was not only when the brilliant supporter of Pitt was rising into political importance , but when he had taken his place among the foremost men of his time , that he had a kindly feeling towards his first publisher , often ...
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Página 100 - Adonis in Loveliness, was a corpulent gentleman of fifty ! In short, that this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity...
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Página 102 - Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany .old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.
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