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... called The Confessions of a Cantab , ' which appears in the sixteenth volume of Blackwood's Magazine , p . 461 , the following passage occurs : - " The gownsmen looked , smiled , and passed on ; the snobs stood still and grinned . " A ...
... called The Confessions of a Cantab , ' which appears in the sixteenth volume of Blackwood's Magazine , p . 461 , the following passage occurs : - " The gownsmen looked , smiled , and passed on ; the snobs stood still and grinned . " A ...
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... called the Strudder . " One day in September last , during a forty - mile walk from Glasgow to Lead hills , I passed a farm in Dalserf parish called the Struther , though an ancient in- habitant near thereby told me that the Struthers ...
... called the Strudder . " One day in September last , during a forty - mile walk from Glasgow to Lead hills , I passed a farm in Dalserf parish called the Struther , though an ancient in- habitant near thereby told me that the Struthers ...
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... called Thursk . Possibly the Gazette was printed in error for Huishe ; but an inquiry at the Diocesan C. R. M. Registry would solve the doubt . MR . HART's surprise " to find overlooked by Dr. Murray " the words " I shrewe his best ...
... called Thursk . Possibly the Gazette was printed in error for Huishe ; but an inquiry at the Diocesan C. R. M. Registry would solve the doubt . MR . HART's surprise " to find overlooked by Dr. Murray " the words " I shrewe his best ...
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... called , will be met with continually amongst the drama- tists . See Chapman's May Day ' and ' All Fools ' ; Greene's James IV . ' ; Middleton's Mad World my Masters ' ; ' Much Ado about Nothing , ' III . iv . 48 ; ' Cupid's Whirligig ...
... called , will be met with continually amongst the drama- tists . See Chapman's May Day ' and ' All Fools ' ; Greene's James IV . ' ; Middleton's Mad World my Masters ' ; ' Much Ado about Nothing , ' III . iv . 48 ; ' Cupid's Whirligig ...
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... called beige in England has , I am informed , much the colour and appearance of Jaeger's underclothing , which professes to be pure , undyed wool . It is not surprising , therefore , that we now find ( in England at least ) beige ...
... called beige in England has , I am informed , much the colour and appearance of Jaeger's underclothing , which professes to be pure , undyed wool . It is not surprising , therefore , that we now find ( in England at least ) beige ...
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Page 125 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state...
Page 173 - Lock,' obtained with guilt, and kept with pain, In every place is sought, but sought in vain: With such a prize no mortal must be blest, So heaven decrees!