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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... king of Castile and Leon , and the succession of Raymond Berenger , count of Barcelona , to the county of Provence , about fifty years later , have been respectively assigned by different writers as the periods of the birth of Provençal ...
... king of Castile and Leon , and the succession of Raymond Berenger , count of Barcelona , to the county of Provence , about fifty years later , have been respectively assigned by different writers as the periods of the birth of Provençal ...
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... kings , and a proportionable number of so- vereign counts and barons . The gay and gallant court of Pro- vence expired early in the 13th century , together with the dy- nasty of its ancient princes . About the same period , religious ...
... kings , and a proportionable number of so- vereign counts and barons . The gay and gallant court of Pro- vence expired early in the 13th century , together with the dy- nasty of its ancient princes . About the same period , religious ...
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... King Ar- thur it never seems to have meddled , and the third romantic fami- ly , that of Amadis , which had the honour of contributing to it some of its later ornaments , would , if we had time for it , require distinct consideration ...
... King Ar- thur it never seems to have meddled , and the third romantic fami- ly , that of Amadis , which had the honour of contributing to it some of its later ornaments , would , if we had time for it , require distinct consideration ...
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... King Agamemnon himself . Several other instances might be addu- ced of this lucky ignorance . The name of Pylades , for example , has been , by all Greek and Roman writers , accented as , what the pedants quaintly call , an anapæst . Mr ...
... King Agamemnon himself . Several other instances might be addu- ced of this lucky ignorance . The name of Pylades , for example , has been , by all Greek and Roman writers , accented as , what the pedants quaintly call , an anapæst . Mr ...
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... king being so measured in his language , our readers will not suspect our judicious author of the inconsistency of giving the queen a lofty style ; on the contrary , as women generally are more simple in their conversation than men , he ...
... king being so measured in his language , our readers will not suspect our judicious author of the inconsistency of giving the queen a lofty style ; on the contrary , as women generally are more simple in their conversation than men , he ...
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