All the Year RoundChapman and Hall, 1889 |
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... perhaps the worst he ever wrote , with interludes of music and masking , in which the King himself appears , to rescue somebody or other op- pressed by wild men and demons . And people talked of an underplot , in which poor Le Vallière ...
... perhaps the worst he ever wrote , with interludes of music and masking , in which the King himself appears , to rescue somebody or other op- pressed by wild men and demons . And people talked of an underplot , in which poor Le Vallière ...
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... Perhaps you want me to point out the exact locality on the map . Nothing easier , if you can only show me a map with it on , my dear girl . " " I think I understand whereabouts tion , Mrs. Oliver had thrown him a the dress. you bring it ...
... Perhaps you want me to point out the exact locality on the map . Nothing easier , if you can only show me a map with it on , my dear girl . " " I think I understand whereabouts tion , Mrs. Oliver had thrown him a the dress. you bring it ...
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... perhaps the allusion might be carried further - we must be struck with the utter absence of any conception of its higher functions in developing that side of the child's mind , which should prove a pleasant retreat from the cares of the ...
... perhaps the allusion might be carried further - we must be struck with the utter absence of any conception of its higher functions in developing that side of the child's mind , which should prove a pleasant retreat from the cares of the ...
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... perhaps he deserves . The Château Neuf , from Henry's time , became the chief country seat of the French Kings , till Louis the Fourteenth forsook it for Versailles ; deserting one of the finest sites that can be imagined for a noble ...
... perhaps he deserves . The Château Neuf , from Henry's time , became the chief country seat of the French Kings , till Louis the Fourteenth forsook it for Versailles ; deserting one of the finest sites that can be imagined for a noble ...
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... perhaps one need not trouble oneself much about Malmaison , unless one is devoted to the Napoleonic legend . When we come to Saint Denis which , perhaps , has been painted in imagi- nation as a stately kind of place , surrounded by ...
... perhaps one need not trouble oneself much about Malmaison , unless one is devoted to the Napoleonic legend . When we come to Saint Denis which , perhaps , has been painted in imagi- nation as a stately kind of place , surrounded by ...
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