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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... collection of this work , and nothing would be more agreeable to me than to burn it with my own hands . In spite of the faults 6 VOL . XI . NO . XXI . B which prevail in it , and greatly exceed its beauties 1814. Ginguené and Sismondi's ...
... collection of this work , and nothing would be more agreeable to me than to burn it with my own hands . In spite of the faults 6 VOL . XI . NO . XXI . B which prevail in it , and greatly exceed its beauties 1814. Ginguené and Sismondi's ...
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... collection of tales which he held in no esteem , and which he composed , as he says him- self , only for the solace of the ladies who , in those days , led a very dis- mal life ; to which , in short , in his declining days , he attached ...
... collection of tales which he held in no esteem , and which he composed , as he says him- self , only for the solace of the ladies who , in those days , led a very dis- mal life ; to which , in short , in his declining days , he attached ...
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... collected from the circumstances under which his hete- rogeneous fable was composed . He was gay or grave according to the temporary bent of his temper , or according to that in which he expected to find the company before whom he ...
... collected from the circumstances under which his hete- rogeneous fable was composed . He was gay or grave according to the temporary bent of his temper , or according to that in which he expected to find the company before whom he ...
Page 67
... collections upon these subjects are the most interesting part of his book . It often happened when he was on his excursions that he was benighted at some distance from his home ; upon such occa- sions he used to make a hole in the fine ...
... collections upon these subjects are the most interesting part of his book . It often happened when he was on his excursions that he was benighted at some distance from his home ; upon such occa- sions he used to make a hole in the fine ...
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... collected above eighty different species of serpents in these islands , and had ac quired much dexterity in catching them . Being well booted to protect his legs , he used to provoke the snake , offer his hat when the reptile was coiled ...
... collected above eighty different species of serpents in these islands , and had ac quired much dexterity in catching them . Being well booted to protect his legs , he used to provoke the snake , offer his hat when the reptile was coiled ...
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