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Page 315 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going, but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me.
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| Title | The phantom ship, Volume 191 Railway libr The phantom ship, Frederick Marryat |
| Author | Frederick Marryat |
| Publisher | G. Routledge & Company, 1857 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Jul 10, 2006 |
| Length | 316 pages |
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