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... half of Chapter II . originally appeared in the Pall Mall Magazine . Portions of Chapters VII . and VIII . , and " The Thruster's Song , " have also been published in Baily's Magazine . My thanks are due to the editors for permission to ...
... half of Chapter II . originally appeared in the Pall Mall Magazine . Portions of Chapters VII . and VIII . , and " The Thruster's Song , " have also been published in Baily's Magazine . My thanks are due to the editors for permission to ...
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... half ago the famous " Elegy " was written , and where , hard by " those rugged elms , that yew- tree's shade , " yet rests the body of the mighty poet , Gray . How those lines run in one's head this bright summer evening , as from our ...
... half ago the famous " Elegy " was written , and where , hard by " those rugged elms , that yew- tree's shade , " yet rests the body of the mighty poet , Gray . How those lines run in one's head this bright summer evening , as from our ...
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... half a mile away is bluer than the evening sky - a deep azure blue . The horizon is clear in the south , but in the north - west dark , but not forbidding clouds are rising ; fantastic cloudlets float high up in the firmament ; rooks ...
... half a mile away is bluer than the evening sky - a deep azure blue . The horizon is clear in the south , but in the north - west dark , but not forbidding clouds are rising ; fantastic cloudlets float high up in the firmament ; rooks ...
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... half that height . Almost every valley has its little brook . The district is essentially a " stone country " ; for all the houses and most of their roofs are built of the local limestone , which lies everywhere on these hills within a ...
... half that height . Almost every valley has its little brook . The district is essentially a " stone country " ; for all the houses and most of their roofs are built of the local limestone , which lies everywhere on these hills within a ...
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... half - effaced inscription telling me the date of this relic of the days of " Merrie England . " This quaint old place appeared older than the rest of the buildings . On enquiry , I learnt that long , long ago , before the present manor ...
... half - effaced inscription telling me the date of this relic of the days of " Merrie England . " This quaint old place appeared older than the rest of the buildings . On enquiry , I learnt that long , long ago , before the present manor ...
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