Macready's Reminiscences, and Selections from His Diaries and Letters, Opseg 1Macmillan and Company, 1875 |
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... sent me back in the chaise to the hotel to take care that the luggage was all rightly transferred . The post - boy called for horses , but not a horse was to be had- " None in was the answer at the hotel ; he unharnessed his own pair ...
... sent me back in the chaise to the hotel to take care that the luggage was all rightly transferred . The post - boy called for horses , but not a horse was to be had- " None in was the answer at the hotel ; he unharnessed his own pair ...
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... sent ( fagged ) by his ( præpostor ) master to Grime's Spinnys , about two and a half miles distant , to steal ash - plants to be beaten with . There was no resource he was seen by Inglis as he passed in his carriage , and being ...
... sent ( fagged ) by his ( præpostor ) master to Grime's Spinnys , about two and a half miles distant , to steal ash - plants to be beaten with . There was no resource he was seen by Inglis as he passed in his carriage , and being ...
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... sent a note to excuse me and his eldest son from the afternoon's callings - over , at my father's request Tom Birch and myself were smuggled into a chaise , and reached Leicester in time for the play - Richard III . ' The house was ...
... sent a note to excuse me and his eldest son from the afternoon's callings - over , at my father's request Tom Birch and myself were smuggled into a chaise , and reached Leicester in time for the play - Richard III . ' The house was ...
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... sent up to Dr. Inglis , on which I went to Birch to protest my innocence , and to offer testimony to the fact that my cul- pability was that of many others , viz . being present on the occasion . Birch very sternly repelled me , telling ...
... sent up to Dr. Inglis , on which I went to Birch to protest my innocence , and to offer testimony to the fact that my cul- pability was that of many others , viz . being present on the occasion . Birch very sternly repelled me , telling ...
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... sent up for good . " " To be sent up for good " was to receive through the præpostor of the form sixpence in the Lower School , and a shilling the Upper ; and it became almost a regular income to me to receive two and three shillings a ...
... sent up for good . " " To be sent up for good " was to receive through the præpostor of the form sixpence in the Lower School , and a shilling the Upper ; and it became almost a regular income to me to receive two and three shillings a ...
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