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Page 6 - LETTERS OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND.— Now first collected from the Originals in Royal Archives, and from other Authentic Sources, private as well as public. Edited, with Historical Introduction and Notes, by JO Halliwell.
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Page 41 - Yon flowery arbours, yonder alleys green, Our walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands than ours to lop their wanton growth : Those blossoms also, and those dropping gums, That lie bestrewn, unsightly and unsmooth, Ask riddance, if we mean to tread with ease; Meanwhile, as Nature wills, night bids us rest.
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Page 9 - The best collection of authentic memorials relative to the Queen of Scots that has ever appeared.
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| Title | Diary and Letters: 1793-1812 Volume 6 of Diary and Letters, Fanny Burney |
| Author | Fanny Burney |
| Editor | Charlotte Barrett |
| Publisher | H. Colburn, 1846 |
| Original from | University of Lausanne |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
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