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... letters , poems ; with characters of sundry personages , and other incomparable pieces of language and art , by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wotton ' ; and Walton's charming biography of his friend appears as an ...
... letters , poems ; with characters of sundry personages , and other incomparable pieces of language and art , by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wotton ' ; and Walton's charming biography of his friend appears as an ...
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... letters which he prints has very little pretension indeed either to completeness or to chronological order . Mr Pear- sall Smith is scientific in the best sense of the word , and his wide erudition , his scrupulous exactitude , his ...
... letters which he prints has very little pretension indeed either to completeness or to chronological order . Mr Pear- sall Smith is scientific in the best sense of the word , and his wide erudition , his scrupulous exactitude , his ...
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... letters , but a man of the world , though he wrote poems and wrote them well , like the rest of his generation . He ... letters are nearly always gay , and one feels - one does not always feel it with good letter- writers that he himself ...
... letters , but a man of the world , though he wrote poems and wrote them well , like the rest of his generation . He ... letters are nearly always gay , and one feels - one does not always feel it with good letter- writers that he himself ...
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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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