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... fos- tered by manifold friendship : To all those who were his students in any sort and are ever his friends . 22 February , 1922 . LOUIS BLISS GILLET . NOTE All the papers here collected are now printed for PREFACE ix.
... fos- tered by manifold friendship : To all those who were his students in any sort and are ever his friends . 22 February , 1922 . LOUIS BLISS GILLET . NOTE All the papers here collected are now printed for PREFACE ix.
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... friends , greatly increased the popularity of his lecture . The texts of the Cambridge Editions published by Messrs . Houghton , Mifflin & Co. have been used for the longer quotations from the poets . A British custom of using ...
... friends , greatly increased the popularity of his lecture . The texts of the Cambridge Editions published by Messrs . Houghton , Mifflin & Co. have been used for the longer quotations from the poets . A British custom of using ...
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... friend during my first visit to America in 1920 , about a month after Winchester's death . " Interesting " is not the first epithet we generally apply to scholars or dons . Few teachers make even their teaching interesting . At all ...
... friend during my first visit to America in 1920 , about a month after Winchester's death . " Interesting " is not the first epithet we generally apply to scholars or dons . Few teachers make even their teaching interesting . At all ...
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... friend Lord Brooke , " of excellent natural wit , large heart , and sweet conversation , " a courtier and a soldier . He had known already many of the changes of the great world . He had been the best friend of Edward VI , and had that ...
... friend Lord Brooke , " of excellent natural wit , large heart , and sweet conversation , " a courtier and a soldier . He had known already many of the changes of the great world . He had been the best friend of Edward VI , and had that ...
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... friend and sister , Lady Jane , all perish together by the headsman's axe . The shadow of that " Black Monday " was never wholly lifted from her life . She was often at the court of Elizabeth ; but , as one who knew her said , " she ...
... friend and sister , Lady Jane , all perish together by the headsman's axe . The shadow of that " Black Monday " was never wholly lifted from her life . She was often at the court of Elizabeth ; but , as one who knew her said , " she ...
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