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... land in civil dissension ; westward were Wales and Cornwall speaking foreign tongues ; further west still , Ireland in agony of hatred . And while to us the word Elizabethan calls up Shakespeare , Kit Marlowe and his strutting ...
... land in civil dissension ; westward were Wales and Cornwall speaking foreign tongues ; further west still , Ireland in agony of hatred . And while to us the word Elizabethan calls up Shakespeare , Kit Marlowe and his strutting ...
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... land . " We know how the big - game hunter thinks and feels and looks ; we have his photograph in the illustrated papers , and his memoirs , " Sport in Many Lands , " " Leaves from a Happy Life . " His quarry can express themselves only ...
... land . " We know how the big - game hunter thinks and feels and looks ; we have his photograph in the illustrated papers , and his memoirs , " Sport in Many Lands , " " Leaves from a Happy Life . " His quarry can express themselves only ...
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... land than in England , and strongest of all in King James . From child- hood he looked with distaste on his rugged land and people ; in Eng- land he saw a paradise of comfortable greatness . He kept continual watch on his chances . In ...
... land than in England , and strongest of all in King James . From child- hood he looked with distaste on his rugged land and people ; in Eng- land he saw a paradise of comfortable greatness . He kept continual watch on his chances . In ...
Contents
THE ENGLand of RaleGHS CHILDHOOD | 1 |
STUDENT AND SOLDIER | 7 |
IRELAND | 14 |
Copyright | |
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