... whiten the brass again, and again send it abroad. You meet Jew pedlars every where, travelling with boxes of haberdashery at their backs, cuckoo clocks, sealing wax, quills, weather glasses, green spectacles, clumsy figures in plaister of Paris, which... Letters from England - Página 151por Robert Southey - 1808Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
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