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... concerning the Waldby family ? A. L. SWAINSON . Rock House , near Torquay . CLARKSON STANFIELD . - I possess an original drawing called ' The Phantom Ship . ' On the back it is stated it was " purchased at the sale of the artist . " Can ...
... concerning the Waldby family ? A. L. SWAINSON . Rock House , near Torquay . CLARKSON STANFIELD . - I possess an original drawing called ' The Phantom Ship . ' On the back it is stated it was " purchased at the sale of the artist . " Can ...
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... concerning the Waldby family ? A. L. SWAINSON . Rock House , near Torquay . CLARKSON STANFIELD . - I possess an original drawing called ' The Phantom Ship . ' On the back it is stated it was " purchased at the sale of the artist . " Can ...
... concerning the Waldby family ? A. L. SWAINSON . Rock House , near Torquay . CLARKSON STANFIELD . - I possess an original drawing called ' The Phantom Ship . ' On the back it is stated it was " purchased at the sale of the artist . " Can ...
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... concerning a family who for nine genera- tions after the Conquest held baronial rank , one of whose members was a Magna Charta baron , and another a claimant of the crown of Scotland , and who in Plantagenet times owned no fewer than ...
... concerning a family who for nine genera- tions after the Conquest held baronial rank , one of whose members was a Magna Charta baron , and another a claimant of the crown of Scotland , and who in Plantagenet times owned no fewer than ...
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... concerning the life in the works accredited to him , we find Mr. Lee speaking of the dramatist are credible or trustworthy - his share out trumpet - tongued . With regard to the three parts of King Henry VI . , ' Mr. Lee asserts that ...
... concerning the life in the works accredited to him , we find Mr. Lee speaking of the dramatist are credible or trustworthy - his share out trumpet - tongued . With regard to the three parts of King Henry VI . , ' Mr. Lee asserts that ...
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... concerning Sir Walter . The most pregnant sentences in the biography are these : " Scott will be severely judged by critics who hold , with Carlyle , that an author should be a prophet . Scott was neither a Wordsworth nor a Goethe , but ...
... concerning Sir Walter . The most pregnant sentences in the biography are these : " Scott will be severely judged by critics who hold , with Carlyle , that an author should be a prophet . Scott was neither a Wordsworth nor a Goethe , but ...
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