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Sorrow and care and anxiety may quite well live in Elizabethan cottages, grown over with honeysuckle and jasmine; and very sad eyes may look forth from windows around which roses twine.

Sorrow and care and anxiety may quite well live in Elizabethan cottages, grown over with honeysuckle and jasmine; and very sad eyes may look forth from windows around which roses twine.
A. K. H. Boyd (identity unresolved)

In print by 1921 AD · modern

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A. K. H. Boyd (identity unresolved)
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In print by 1921 AD · modern
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My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)

Page 198 · printed citation: A. K. H. Boyd (The Recreations of a Country Parson). · compiler notes excluded

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