The Quarterly Review, Volume 11William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1814 |
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... , ' till it met , mid - way in its course , another torrent flowing from a totally different sources 6 for the Greeks had in the mean time colonized the 2 Ginguene and Sismondi's Literary History of Italy , & c . APR .
... , ' till it met , mid - way in its course , another torrent flowing from a totally different sources 6 for the Greeks had in the mean time colonized the 2 Ginguene and Sismondi's Literary History of Italy , & c . APR .
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... Greek , combined with a varie- ty of unknown ingredients , the reliques of the various indigenous idioms , which it is not to be imagined the new settlers took the pains to eradicate . In this mixture , the Celtic had a vast advan- tage ...
... Greek , combined with a varie- ty of unknown ingredients , the reliques of the various indigenous idioms , which it is not to be imagined the new settlers took the pains to eradicate . In this mixture , the Celtic had a vast advan- tage ...
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... Greeks and Romans have told them , are trite - we might almost say with Hamlet , ' musty . ' It was a poet , doubt- less , who first invented the tale of ancient Pelops ' line . An- other poet has surely a right to alter such a fable ...
... Greeks and Romans have told them , are trite - we might almost say with Hamlet , ' musty . ' It was a poet , doubt- less , who first invented the tale of ancient Pelops ' line . An- other poet has surely a right to alter such a fable ...
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... Greek and Roman writers , accented as , what the pedants quaintly call , an anapæst . Mr. Galt , however , felt , as every one must feel , how much more musically the name would flow if pronounced Pylades ; and Pylades the name accor ...
... Greek and Roman writers , accented as , what the pedants quaintly call , an anapæst . Mr. Galt , however , felt , as every one must feel , how much more musically the name would flow if pronounced Pylades ; and Pylades the name accor ...
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... Greek , Latin , and all the modern languages . In this Babel of book - making , Job brings his mite to bear on the doctrine of Atoms , II . 196. Hafiz illustrates the Anaphora , II . 5. The Arabian bard Zohair personifies death like ...
... Greek , Latin , and all the modern languages . In this Babel of book - making , Job brings his mite to bear on the doctrine of Atoms , II . 196. Hafiz illustrates the Anaphora , II . 5. The Arabian bard Zohair personifies death like ...
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