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... STORIES RE - TOLD . BY WALTER THORNBURY . PUNIANA . By the Hon . HUGH ROWLEY . MORE PUNIANA . By the Hon . HUGH ROWLEY . THOREAU : HIS LIFE AND AIMS . By H. A. PAGE . By E. BY STREAM AND SEA . By WILLIAM Senior . JEUX D'ESPRIT ...
... STORIES RE - TOLD . BY WALTER THORNBURY . PUNIANA . By the Hon . HUGH ROWLEY . MORE PUNIANA . By the Hon . HUGH ROWLEY . THOREAU : HIS LIFE AND AIMS . By H. A. PAGE . By E. BY STREAM AND SEA . By WILLIAM Senior . JEUX D'ESPRIT ...
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... story of Thackeray . Many years ago , just after Millais had achieved his first success , and made the art - world talk of him as a new light and a great power , he fell in with Thackeray , who was then living in Paris . After hearing ...
... story of Thackeray . Many years ago , just after Millais had achieved his first success , and made the art - world talk of him as a new light and a great power , he fell in with Thackeray , who was then living in Paris . After hearing ...
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... story of Lord Palmerston . - " I had exhibited for several years , but without any particular success . One year , however - the year before I painted ' The Corsicans ' Lord Palmerston took a sudden fancy to my picture called ' Summer ...
... story of Lord Palmerston . - " I had exhibited for several years , but without any particular success . One year , however - the year before I painted ' The Corsicans ' Lord Palmerston took a sudden fancy to my picture called ' Summer ...
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... story to a similar effect . When John Martin had finished his well - known " Zadok in Search of the Waters of Oblivion , " which was more than once engraved , he sent for the framemaker's men to frame it , and having occasion to remain ...
... story to a similar effect . When John Martin had finished his well - known " Zadok in Search of the Waters of Oblivion , " which was more than once engraved , he sent for the framemaker's men to frame it , and having occasion to remain ...
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... story is told of Sir Thomas Lawrence's portrait of the German minister , William von Humboldt , in the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle . George the Fourth , who was a personal friend of the minister , asked him , shortly before his ...
... story is told of Sir Thomas Lawrence's portrait of the German minister , William von Humboldt , in the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle . George the Fourth , who was a personal friend of the minister , asked him , shortly before his ...
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