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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... less amicable relations produced by the neighbourhood of the Moorish kingdom of Valencia to inspire the polished court of Barcelona with the spi- rit of freedom and chivalry , and a relish for the refinements of luxury , the elegance ...
... less amicable relations produced by the neighbourhood of the Moorish kingdom of Valencia to inspire the polished court of Barcelona with the spi- rit of freedom and chivalry , and a relish for the refinements of luxury , the elegance ...
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... less than a century after , we have the names , and some remains of the works , of a very numerous body of his poetical successors , among whom are four kings , and a proportionable number of so- vereign counts and barons . The gay and ...
... less than a century after , we have the names , and some remains of the works , of a very numerous body of his poetical successors , among whom are four kings , and a proportionable number of so- vereign counts and barons . The gay and ...
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... less capable of being duly appreciated through the medium of translation than in the art which he so eminently possessed , of painting in words ; of re- presenting objects which are the pure creations of fancy , beings or actions out of ...
... less capable of being duly appreciated through the medium of translation than in the art which he so eminently possessed , of painting in words ; of re- presenting objects which are the pure creations of fancy , beings or actions out of ...
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... less the extraordinary powers of his mind , there are none that can awaken an interest in any class of modern read- ers , with the exception of his correspondence and his curious dialogues De Contemptu Mundi , which will ever be ...
... less the extraordinary powers of his mind , there are none that can awaken an interest in any class of modern read- ers , with the exception of his correspondence and his curious dialogues De Contemptu Mundi , which will ever be ...
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... less familiar to the English reader , and yet , in the opinion of competent judges , they tend to raise the cha- racter of the poet much higher than those smaller compositions 6 of which the confined and embarrassing structure has not B ...
... less familiar to the English reader , and yet , in the opinion of competent judges , they tend to raise the cha- racter of the poet much higher than those smaller compositions 6 of which the confined and embarrassing structure has not B ...
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