The Cornhill Magazine, Volumes 9-10; Volume 83; Volume 1901William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1901 - Electronic journals |
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... Lady : Interviews · • Burnett , Frances Hodgson : The Making of a Marchioness , I. , · 236 • 312 473 II . • 730 Child of the Eighteenth Century ( A ) . By Violet A. Simpson Christian Scientist ( The ) . By Frank Richardson College Cat ...
... Lady : Interviews · • Burnett , Frances Hodgson : The Making of a Marchioness , I. , · 236 • 312 473 II . • 730 Child of the Eighteenth Century ( A ) . By Violet A. Simpson Christian Scientist ( The ) . By Frank Richardson College Cat ...
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... Lady Broome James , Henry : The Two Faces Killarney Hunt ( The ) . By the Author of Father O'Flynn ' • • 577 • 478 76 • 654 80 188 Lang , Andrew : Examinations in Fiction Lawful Pleasures . By George M. Smith Layard , G. S .: Family ...
... Lady Broome James , Henry : The Two Faces Killarney Hunt ( The ) . By the Author of Father O'Flynn ' • • 577 • 478 76 • 654 80 188 Lang , Andrew : Examinations in Fiction Lawful Pleasures . By George M. Smith Layard , G. S .: Family ...
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... Lady's lead . Down her course a serpent star Coils and shatters at her heels ; Peals the horn exulting , peals Plaintive , is it near or far . Huntress , arrowy to pursue , In and out of woody glen , Under cliffs that tear the blue ...
... Lady's lead . Down her course a serpent star Coils and shatters at her heels ; Peals the horn exulting , peals Plaintive , is it near or far . Huntress , arrowy to pursue , In and out of woody glen , Under cliffs that tear the blue ...
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... lady read and re- members her musical and sympathetic voice will understand that the MS . lost nothing in effect by her reading . On the following day I offered her 10,000l . for the book for the CORNHILL MAGAZINE , and for a limited ...
... lady read and re- members her musical and sympathetic voice will understand that the MS . lost nothing in effect by her reading . On the following day I offered her 10,000l . for the book for the CORNHILL MAGAZINE , and for a limited ...
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... LADY BINGHAM , COLONEL MANSEL , MAJOR HARRISON , AND COLONEL GORREQUER , DISCOVERED AND TRANSCRIBED BY MISS DOROTHY MANSEL PLEYDELL , EDITED BY THE RIGHT HON . SIR HERBERT MAXWELL , BART . , M.P. LORD ROSEBERY has brought so much ...
... LADY BINGHAM , COLONEL MANSEL , MAJOR HARRISON , AND COLONEL GORREQUER , DISCOVERED AND TRANSCRIBED BY MISS DOROTHY MANSEL PLEYDELL , EDITED BY THE RIGHT HON . SIR HERBERT MAXWELL , BART . , M.P. LORD ROSEBERY has brought so much ...
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