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Pagina 8
... Miss Jane Porter , who was a novelist , and is mentioned in the ' D.N.B. , ' and professes to be a copy of the diary of the above Sir Edward , which was written in the years 1733-49 . Sir Edward was shipwrecked on some unknown islands ...
... Miss Jane Porter , who was a novelist , and is mentioned in the ' D.N.B. , ' and professes to be a copy of the diary of the above Sir Edward , which was written in the years 1733-49 . Sir Edward was shipwrecked on some unknown islands ...
Pagina 11
... miss the following : 1. Woggle , a game on the principle of cricket , but played with a short piece of wood instead of a ball , and holes instead of wickets . when under examination made a point of translating every Greek or Latin name ...
... miss the following : 1. Woggle , a game on the principle of cricket , but played with a short piece of wood instead of a ball , and holes instead of wickets . when under examination made a point of translating every Greek or Latin name ...
Pagina 19
... Miss Shedlock has already tried them in that way with success , their publication is clearly justified . We have read them with pleasure , and are glad to think that , just as Western art is being revivified by Oriental influences - if ...
... Miss Shedlock has already tried them in that way with success , their publication is clearly justified . We have read them with pleasure , and are glad to think that , just as Western art is being revivified by Oriental influences - if ...
Pagina 47
... Miss Pentland , who had taken the name of her godfather , an excise officer in the same service , in place of her original one of Pendlebury . She is known to have been descended from some family , but I do not know which , or what ...
... Miss Pentland , who had taken the name of her godfather , an excise officer in the same service , in place of her original one of Pendlebury . She is known to have been descended from some family , but I do not know which , or what ...
Pagina 74
... Miss Arabella Kenealy the novelist . EDITOR IRISH BOOK LOVER . " Kensal Lodge , N.W. Maginn is undeservedly forgotten , or re- Pendennis in membered only through which there are sketched but a few com- paratively uninteresting ...
... Miss Arabella Kenealy the novelist . EDITOR IRISH BOOK LOVER . " Kensal Lodge , N.W. Maginn is undeservedly forgotten , or re- Pendennis in membered only through which there are sketched but a few com- paratively uninteresting ...
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