Four Centuries of English Letters: Selections from the Correspondence of One Hundred and Fifty Writers from the Period of the Paston Letters to the Present DayWilliam Baptiste Scoones Harper & Bros., 1880 - 573 páginas |
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... leave it to others to expatiate on letter - writing as an art and on the varied beauties of our own epistolary literature in particular ; and will conclude with an expression of thanks to those gentlemen who have kindly granted me ...
... leave it to others to expatiate on letter - writing as an art and on the varied beauties of our own epistolary literature in particular ; and will conclude with an expression of thanks to those gentlemen who have kindly granted me ...
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... leave us yet lesse , at hys pleasure be it . I praye you to make some good ensearche what my poor neighbours have loste , and bidde them take no thought therefore , and if I shold not leave myself a spone , there shall no poore ...
... leave us yet lesse , at hys pleasure be it . I praye you to make some good ensearche what my poor neighbours have loste , and bidde them take no thought therefore , and if I shold not leave myself a spone , there shall no poore ...
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... leave it here with us still on earth . When I mused on the matter as nature , flesh , and fatherly fantasy did carry me , I found nothing but sorrows and care , which very much did vex and trouble me , but at last forsaking these ...
... leave it here with us still on earth . When I mused on the matter as nature , flesh , and fatherly fantasy did carry me , I found nothing but sorrows and care , which very much did vex and trouble me , but at last forsaking these ...
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... leave her captivity and be placed in the keeping of some neutral prince , subject to a guarantee from her relations that she should for ever abstain from all interference in the affairs of England . The letter indicates with tolerable ...
... leave her captivity and be placed in the keeping of some neutral prince , subject to a guarantee from her relations that she should for ever abstain from all interference in the affairs of England . The letter indicates with tolerable ...
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... leave your surest , and stike to unstable staies . Suppose them to be but the ecchos to suche whos stipendaries the be , and wyl do more for ther gaine than your good . And so , God hold you ever in his blessed kiping , and make you see ...
... leave your surest , and stike to unstable staies . Suppose them to be but the ecchos to suche whos stipendaries the be , and wyl do more for ther gaine than your good . And so , God hold you ever in his blessed kiping , and make you see ...
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