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... ROMANCE IN TWO STYLES OF BINDING , CLOTH , FLAT BACK , COLOURED TOP , AND LEATHER , ROUND CORNERS , GILT TOP . LONDON J. M. DENT & CO . NEW YORK : E. P. DUTTON & CO . GOOD BOOK IS THE PRECIOUS LIFE BLOOD C AMASTER SPIRIT.
... ROMANCE IN TWO STYLES OF BINDING , CLOTH , FLAT BACK , COLOURED TOP , AND LEATHER , ROUND CORNERS , GILT TOP . LONDON J. M. DENT & CO . NEW YORK : E. P. DUTTON & CO . GOOD BOOK IS THE PRECIOUS LIFE BLOOD C AMASTER SPIRIT.
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... and travels as chance presented to me - not forgetting the usual , or rather ten times the usual , quantity of fairy tales , Eastern stories , 11 romances , etc. These studies were totally unregulated and Autobiography 27.
... and travels as chance presented to me - not forgetting the usual , or rather ten times the usual , quantity of fairy tales , Eastern stories , 11 romances , etc. These studies were totally unregulated and Autobiography 27.
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Bart John Gibson Lockhart. 11 romances , etc. These studies were totally unregulated and undirected . My tutor thought it almost a sin to open a profane play or poem ; and my mother , besides that she might be in some degree trammelled ...
Bart John Gibson Lockhart. 11 romances , etc. These studies were totally unregulated and undirected . My tutor thought it almost a sin to open a profane play or poem ; and my mother , besides that she might be in some degree trammelled ...
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... romance for the other's amuse- 1 [ In speaking of the High School period , Mr. John Irving says : " He began early to collect old ballads , and as my mother could repeat a great many , he used to come and learn those she could recite to ...
... romance for the other's amuse- 1 [ In speaking of the High School period , Mr. John Irving says : " He began early to collect old ballads , and as my mother could repeat a great many , he used to come and learn those she could recite to ...
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... romances , the Bibliothèque Bleue , and Biblio- thèque de Romans , were already familiar to me ; and I now acquired similar intimacy with the works of Dante , Boiardo , Pulci , and other eminent Italian authors . fas- tened also , like ...
... romances , the Bibliothèque Bleue , and Biblio- thèque de Romans , were already familiar to me ; and I now acquired similar intimacy with the works of Dante , Boiardo , Pulci , and other eminent Italian authors . fas- tened also , like ...
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