The Privateer: A Metrical RomanceGriffith and Farran, 1874 - 160 pages |
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... written after the manner of the " Ingoldsby Legends . " CALIPH CHASID : A LEGEND OF BAGDAD . THE SCHWANENBURG : A LEGEND OF CLEVES . THE LOVERS ' DILEMMA : A LEGEND OF MERRIE ISLINGTON . THE LEFT - HANDED MARRIAGE : A LEGEND OF ERFURT ...
... written after the manner of the " Ingoldsby Legends . " CALIPH CHASID : A LEGEND OF BAGDAD . THE SCHWANENBURG : A LEGEND OF CLEVES . THE LOVERS ' DILEMMA : A LEGEND OF MERRIE ISLINGTON . THE LEFT - HANDED MARRIAGE : A LEGEND OF ERFURT ...
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... writing poetry , and ever since that time I have employed a large portion of my leisure hours in studying and practising metrical composition ; the result being that poem after poem has accu- mulated under my hands ; a selection from ...
... writing poetry , and ever since that time I have employed a large portion of my leisure hours in studying and practising metrical composition ; the result being that poem after poem has accu- mulated under my hands ; a selection from ...
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A Metrical Romance Sailor. I have been told by literary advisers that humorous writing is my particular forte , but I have published this Romance first because I wish to lay the poems before the public in the same rotation as that in ...
A Metrical Romance Sailor. I have been told by literary advisers that humorous writing is my particular forte , but I have published this Romance first because I wish to lay the poems before the public in the same rotation as that in ...
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... written book . " - British Quarterly . " The story is imbued with a fine healthy , moral tone . " - Daily Review . Adventures of Kwei , the Chinese Girl . By the Author of " Little Lisette , " etc. With Illustrations . Fcap . 8vo ...
... written book . " - British Quarterly . " The story is imbued with a fine healthy , moral tone . " - Daily Review . Adventures of Kwei , the Chinese Girl . By the Author of " Little Lisette , " etc. With Illustrations . Fcap . 8vo ...
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... Written and Illus- trated by ADELAIDE A. MAGUIRE . Small 4to , price 3s . 6d . " Told in a bewitchingly simple and straightforward manner . ” — Art Journal . Alda Graham and Her Brother Philip . By EMILIA MARRYAT NORRIS . With ...
... Written and Illus- trated by ADELAIDE A. MAGUIRE . Small 4to , price 3s . 6d . " Told in a bewitchingly simple and straightforward manner . ” — Art Journal . Alda Graham and Her Brother Philip . By EMILIA MARRYAT NORRIS . With ...
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