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Page 10
... children are accommodated at a side table . He never cometh upon open days , when your wife says with some complacency , " My dear , perhaps Mr. will drop in to- day . " He remembereth birth - days - and professeth he is fortunate to ...
... children are accommodated at a side table . He never cometh upon open days , when your wife says with some complacency , " My dear , perhaps Mr. will drop in to- day . " He remembereth birth - days - and professeth he is fortunate to ...
Page 12
... children's gover- ness takes upon her to correct her , when she has mistaken the piano for harpsichord . ― Richard Amlet , Esq . , in the play , is a notable instance of the disadvantages , to which this chi- merical notion of affinity ...
... children's gover- ness takes upon her to correct her , when she has mistaken the piano for harpsichord . ― Richard Amlet , Esq . , in the play , is a notable instance of the disadvantages , to which this chi- merical notion of affinity ...
Page 95
... best but like a froward child , that must be played with , and humoured a little , to keep it quiet , till it falls asleep , and then the care is over . دو " " BARBARA S N the noon of the 14th of November THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING . 95.
... best but like a froward child , that must be played with , and humoured a little , to keep it quiet , till it falls asleep , and then the care is over . دو " " BARBARA S N the noon of the 14th of November THE GENTEEL STYLE IN WRITING . 95.
Page 96
... to her behaviour . You would have taken her to have been at least five years older . Till latterly she had merely been employed in choruses , or where children were wanted to fill up the scene . But the manager , observing a diligence.
... to her behaviour . You would have taken her to have been at least five years older . Till latterly she had merely been employed in choruses , or where children were wanted to fill up the scene . But the manager , observing a diligence.
Page 97
... child in Morton's pathetic after - piece to the life ; but as yet the " Children in the Wood " was not . Long after this little girl was grown an aged woman , I have seen some of these small parts , each making two or three pages at ...
... child in Morton's pathetic after - piece to the life ; but as yet the " Children in the Wood " was not . Long after this little girl was grown an aged woman , I have seen some of these small parts , each making two or three pages at ...
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