Fifty Years of London Life: Memoirs of a Man of the WorldHarper & brothers, 1885 - 444 páginas |
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... head - masters , and Henry Have- lock , the future savior of India , for his contemporary and friend . He always spoke pleasantly of his school - days . My friend , the late Mr. W. P. Hale , son of Archdeacon Hale , Master of the ...
... head - masters , and Henry Have- lock , the future savior of India , for his contemporary and friend . He always spoke pleasantly of his school - days . My friend , the late Mr. W. P. Hale , son of Archdeacon Hale , Master of the ...
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... head . I am quite sure that your name as the Jew , and mine as the author , would knock any other attempts quite out of the field . " Surely the inference from this is , that Dickens was by no means displeased by his dramatic treatment ...
... head . I am quite sure that your name as the Jew , and mine as the author , would knock any other attempts quite out of the field . " Surely the inference from this is , that Dickens was by no means displeased by his dramatic treatment ...
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... heads in London , as she turned all those in Paris . " The piece was called " Louise de Lignerolles , " and was , I fancy , played at the Adelphi . Another play by Miss Pardoe , which I recollect seeing , was called " Agnes St. Aubyn ...
... heads in London , as she turned all those in Paris . " The piece was called " Louise de Lignerolles , " and was , I fancy , played at the Adelphi . Another play by Miss Pardoe , which I recollect seeing , was called " Agnes St. Aubyn ...
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... head agen the wall ! " Such amenities as these were out of date ; but actors were so seldom seen off the stage as to make any of their belongings special objects of half - comical , half - compas- sionate interest ; and to this minute I ...
... head agen the wall ! " Such amenities as these were out of date ; but actors were so seldom seen off the stage as to make any of their belongings special objects of half - comical , half - compas- sionate interest ; and to this minute I ...
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... head which he had re- ceived from a morgenstern , the heavy club with which the Stockholm watchmen were armed ... head wrapped up in a handkerchief on his knees in the omnibus , and who was supposed to have nearly fainted with fright ...
... head which he had re- ceived from a morgenstern , the heavy club with which the Stockholm watchmen were armed ... head wrapped up in a handkerchief on his knees in the omnibus , and who was supposed to have nearly fainted with fright ...
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Fifty Years of London Life: Memoirs of a Man of the World ... Edmund Hodgson Yates Vista completa - 1881 |
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