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... feels - one does not always feel it with good letter- writers that he himself was even more charming than his letters . He took life lightly and calmly ; he had the secret of a contentment of which illness and debt and loss of friends ...
... feels - one does not always feel it with good letter- writers that he himself was even more charming than his letters . He took life lightly and calmly ; he had the secret of a contentment of which illness and debt and loss of friends ...
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... feeling of being in a foreign country ; we are at home with him , and he , we feel , is at home with us . We have , too , given solid proof of our admiration , for there is no other foreign author whom we have imitated so much . Ever ...
... feeling of being in a foreign country ; we are at home with him , and he , we feel , is at home with us . We have , too , given solid proof of our admiration , for there is no other foreign author whom we have imitated so much . Ever ...
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... feel something very different ; he would make them feel : ' A murderer is doing this . ' He would lift them up to his own heights , giving them visions of realities they had hardly dreamt of , and of mysteries they could never ...
... feel something very different ; he would make them feel : ' A murderer is doing this . ' He would lift them up to his own heights , giving them visions of realities they had hardly dreamt of , and of mysteries they could never ...
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A New History of Rome Jan 2 1909 page | 13 |
Sir Henry Wotton Nov 23 1907 | 23 |
The Swan of Lichfield Dec 7 1907 | 33 |
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