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Stories for the household (1889)

Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875, Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William), 1832-1894, Bayes, Alfred Walter, 1832-1909, ill · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 516

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end. The African, with blunt features, thick lips, and woolly hair, sita onthe marble steps of the palace in the capital of Portugal, and begs: heis the submissive slave of Camoens, and but for him, and for the copper The Thorny Road of Honour. 491 coins thrown to him by the passers by, his master,… … THE KIXG OF POETS. I have made a discovery, he says, the greatest that has been madefor centuries; and they have kept me locked up here for more thantwenty years ! Who is the man ? A madman, replies the keeper of the madhouse. What whimsicalideas these lunatics have! He imagines that one can propel…

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