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... thoughts and feelings . He wanted to record the variety of his experience and to put it down in an unformed way that would represent the actual pressure of thought : ' I have bethought me on seeing lately some volumes of Byrons notes ...
... thoughts and feelings . He wanted to record the variety of his experience and to put it down in an unformed way that would represent the actual pressure of thought : ' I have bethought me on seeing lately some volumes of Byrons notes ...
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... thought strikes me . When I die will the journal of these day [ s ] be taken out of the Ebony cabinet at Abbotsford and read as the transient pout of a man worth £ 60,000 with wonder that the well seeming Baronet should ever have ...
... thought strikes me . When I die will the journal of these day [ s ] be taken out of the Ebony cabinet at Abbotsford and read as the transient pout of a man worth £ 60,000 with wonder that the well seeming Baronet should ever have ...
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... thoughts to the continuation of the romance which I had commenced , yet as I could not find what I had already ... thought also , that much of what I wanted in talent , might be made up by the intimate acquaintance with the subject ...
... thoughts to the continuation of the romance which I had commenced , yet as I could not find what I had already ... thought also , that much of what I wanted in talent , might be made up by the intimate acquaintance with the subject ...
Contents
Memoirs | 1 |
Letters on Love and Marriage 17951797 | 45 |
Letters to Lady Abercorn 18061810 | 58 |
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