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... True , she knew not a word of French , and was incapable of playing the " Battle of Prague " on the piano . But in the school kept by Madam Tucker in the Cathedral Close , -an ancient lady who ( with aid of younger folk ) had brought up ...
... True , she knew not a word of French , and was incapable of playing the " Battle of Prague " on the piano . But in the school kept by Madam Tucker in the Cathedral Close , -an ancient lady who ( with aid of younger folk ) had brought up ...
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... true gentlemen ought not to be able to read or write . Imagination and memory are what men want . Learn your Homer and your Solon . Get poetry and law into your brain ; the one will teach you the pleasure and peril of life , the other ...
... true gentlemen ought not to be able to read or write . Imagination and memory are what men want . Learn your Homer and your Solon . Get poetry and law into your brain ; the one will teach you the pleasure and peril of life , the other ...
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... true Olympus was a library . There you were be- yond reach of all the miserable windy influ- ences which surround the outer world . There you could enjoy life without interference , could se unsphere the spirit of Plato , ” could call ...
... true Olympus was a library . There you were be- yond reach of all the miserable windy influ- ences which surround the outer world . There you could enjoy life without interference , could se unsphere the spirit of Plato , ” could call ...
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... True orange pekoe ; And who ever grumbled When glass of quaint shape Holds Sercial that's tumbled Three times round the Cape ? A dreary old maid is A nuisance immense ; But we'll love maiden ladies A hundred years hence . The old maid ...
... True orange pekoe ; And who ever grumbled When glass of quaint shape Holds Sercial that's tumbled Three times round the Cape ? A dreary old maid is A nuisance immense ; But we'll love maiden ladies A hundred years hence . The old maid ...
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... ness of bird - music . If you enter that cottage , you will find two rooms full of bird - cages , fifty in each , perhaps : a true academy of music ; for one cage in each room contains a nightingale , and 66 SQUIRE SILCHESTER'S WHIM .
... ness of bird - music . If you enter that cottage , you will find two rooms full of bird - cages , fifty in each , perhaps : a true academy of music ; for one cage in each room contains a nightingale , and 66 SQUIRE SILCHESTER'S WHIM .
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