Roundabout Papers: (From the Cornhill Magazine) To which is Added, The Second Funeral of Napaleon; The Four Georges; The English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century; Critical Reviews and Selections (from Punch).Caxton Publishing Company, 1884 - 642 páginas |
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... Letters are my bedside books . If I wake at night , I have one or other of them to prattle me to sleep again : They talk about themselves for ever , and don't " The Search for Sir John Franklin . ( From the Private Journal of an Officer ...
... Letters are my bedside books . If I wake at night , I have one or other of them to prattle me to sleep again : They talk about themselves for ever , and don't " The Search for Sir John Franklin . ( From the Private Journal of an Officer ...
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... Letters " from beginning to end , or to eat up the whole of a ham but a slice on occasion may have a relish : a dip into the volume at random and so on for a page or two : and now and then a smile ; and presently a gape ; and the book ...
... Letters " from beginning to end , or to eat up the whole of a ham but a slice on occasion may have a relish : a dip into the volume at random and so on for a page or two : and now and then a smile ; and presently a gape ; and the book ...
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... letters , arts , and commerce - were admitted . The emblem of the Order was but a piece of ribbon , more or less long or broad , with a toy at the end of it . The Bourbons had toys and ribbons of their own , blue , black , and all ...
... letters , arts , and commerce - were admitted . The emblem of the Order was but a piece of ribbon , more or less long or broad , with a toy at the end of it . The Bourbons had toys and ribbons of their own , blue , black , and all ...
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... letters . Diplomatists take their Bath in it as of right ; and it flings out a profusion of glittering stars upon the nobility of the three kingdoms . Cannot Britannia find a ribbon for her sailors ? The Navy , royal or mercantile , is ...
... letters . Diplomatists take their Bath in it as of right ; and it flings out a profusion of glittering stars upon the nobility of the three kingdoms . Cannot Britannia find a ribbon for her sailors ? The Navy , royal or mercantile , is ...
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... letter of a Northern newspaper , that in the midst of the company assembled the reader's humble servant was present , and in a very polite society , too , of " poets , clergy- men , men of letters , and members of both Houses of Parlia ...
... letter of a Northern newspaper , that in the midst of the company assembled the reader's humble servant was present , and in a very polite society , too , of " poets , clergy- men , men of letters , and members of both Houses of Parlia ...
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Roundabout Papers: To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon ; The ... William Makepeace Thackeray Vista de fragmentos - 1880 |
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