Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 328William Blackwood, 1980 - England |
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Page 254
... wrote in 1932 : ' The virgin Rub ' al Khali , the Great Southern Desert ! To have laboured in Arabia is to have tasted inevitably of her seduction . . . . ' In 1926 Thesiger's old friend , R. E. Cheesman , gave a less emotional account ...
... wrote in 1932 : ' The virgin Rub ' al Khali , the Great Southern Desert ! To have laboured in Arabia is to have tasted inevitably of her seduction . . . . ' In 1926 Thesiger's old friend , R. E. Cheesman , gave a less emotional account ...
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... wrote that ' Nothing can equal the profound , the unmeasurable , the awful dulness of this place , in the which I lie dead and buried , in hopes of a joyful resurrection in the year 1796 ' . The Netheravon curacy was a depressing start ...
... wrote that ' Nothing can equal the profound , the unmeasurable , the awful dulness of this place , in the which I lie dead and buried , in hopes of a joyful resurrection in the year 1796 ' . The Netheravon curacy was a depressing start ...
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... wrote a generous preface . Despite all his own difficulties he had kept his promise to try to find a publisher for her . Miles Franklin had contacted Lawson shortly before he left Australia . As she wrote afterwards , she ' knew no ...
... wrote a generous preface . Despite all his own difficulties he had kept his promise to try to find a publisher for her . Miles Franklin had contacted Lawson shortly before he left Australia . As she wrote afterwards , she ' knew no ...
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