American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 59Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1862 |
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She lived in the immediate neighborhood of the Court , and wrote the greater part of her mediæval romances in a corner chamber of the Bellevue Palace in the Thiergarten , on the Spree ; much complimented by princes and princesses ...
She lived in the immediate neighborhood of the Court , and wrote the greater part of her mediæval romances in a corner chamber of the Bellevue Palace in the Thiergarten , on the Spree ; much complimented by princes and princesses ...
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... convex glasses to read with ; and it is known that Alexander di Spiner of Pisa , who lived at the same period , and who likewise assisted his vision in the same way , gave all the information he had upon the subject to the public .
... convex glasses to read with ; and it is known that Alexander di Spiner of Pisa , who lived at the same period , and who likewise assisted his vision in the same way , gave all the information he had upon the subject to the public .
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He built it for himself , and lived here for a year . ' * And where is he now ? ' inquired I. * Ah ! ' said the guide , shuddering , he was murdered , and his ghost , they say , now haunts the house . Come , let us go on Wait one moment ...
He built it for himself , and lived here for a year . ' * And where is he now ? ' inquired I. * Ah ! ' said the guide , shuddering , he was murdered , and his ghost , they say , now haunts the house . Come , let us go on Wait one moment ...
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I have lived in this house alone for four years , as nearly as I can calculate . I swore that one whom I hated I would slay . I have done so . I have wished to die but could not . Often was my crime repented of , until I went mad .
I have lived in this house alone for four years , as nearly as I can calculate . I swore that one whom I hated I would slay . I have done so . I have wished to die but could not . Often was my crime repented of , until I went mad .
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“ We lived a wild , reckless , dissipated life . : Money was nothing to me -I had a fortune . But although I paid Argent's expenses from my own purse , he desired more than he could readily obtain for his private dissipations .
“ We lived a wild , reckless , dissipated life . : Money was nothing to me -I had a fortune . But although I paid Argent's expenses from my own purse , he desired more than he could readily obtain for his private dissipations .
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