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... seems a queer idea for a small boy , but it must be confessed . " It takes all sorts to make a world , " some are soldiers from the cradle , some merchants , some orators ; nothing but a love of books was the gift given to me by the ...
... seems a queer idea for a small boy , but it must be confessed . " It takes all sorts to make a world , " some are soldiers from the cradle , some merchants , some orators ; nothing but a love of books was the gift given to me by the ...
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... seem to hear him again when boys break the hum of London with yells of the latest " disaster . " We left England in a year , went back to Scotland , and awoke , as it were , to know the glories of our birth . We lived in Scott's country ...
... seem to hear him again when boys break the hum of London with yells of the latest " disaster . " We left England in a year , went back to Scotland , and awoke , as it were , to know the glories of our birth . We lived in Scott's country ...
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... seems ( I have not read his adventures ) , and he came , as he deserved , to a bad end . Other and better boys , I learn , find Scott " slow . " Extraordinary boys ! Per- haps " Ivanhoe was first favourite of yore ; you cannot beat ...
... seems ( I have not read his adventures ) , and he came , as he deserved , to a bad end . Other and better boys , I learn , find Scott " slow . " Extraordinary boys ! Per- haps " Ivanhoe was first favourite of yore ; you cannot beat ...
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... seem to be one's vocation . But the story of Pen made one wish to run away to literature , to the Temple , to streets where Brown , the famous reviewer , might be seen walking with his wife and umbrella . The writing of poems " up to ...
... seem to be one's vocation . But the story of Pen made one wish to run away to literature , to the Temple , to streets where Brown , the famous reviewer , might be seen walking with his wife and umbrella . The writing of poems " up to ...
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... seems in Marryat's novels : so many a lad whom he tempted into the navy has dis- covered . The best part of the existence of a man of letters is his looking forward to it through the spectacles of Titmarsh . One can never say how much ...
... seems in Marryat's novels : so many a lad whom he tempted into the navy has dis- covered . The best part of the existence of a man of letters is his looking forward to it through the spectacles of Titmarsh . One can never say how much ...
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