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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... original German , by John Black , with Notes and Illustrations chiefly Mineralogical , and some Account of the Author , by Robert Jameson , F. R. S. E. F. L. S. & c . Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh ...
... original German , by John Black , with Notes and Illustrations chiefly Mineralogical , and some Account of the Author , by Robert Jameson , F. R. S. E. F. L. S. & c . Professor of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh ...
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... original plan excluded , by de- grees , all hope of its accomplishment ; and that the author aban- doned to others the remainder of a task , undertaken in favour of that nation ' with which he is best acquainted , and which , perhaps ...
... original plan excluded , by de- grees , all hope of its accomplishment ; and that the author aban- doned to others the remainder of a task , undertaken in favour of that nation ' with which he is best acquainted , and which , perhaps ...
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... original strength enabled it to survive a first , a second , and a third collision , it was gradually weakened by each following shock ; and recei- ved in its turn the inflexions and phrases , the pronunciation ( per- haps ) and much of ...
... original strength enabled it to survive a first , a second , and a third collision , it was gradually weakened by each following shock ; and recei- ved in its turn the inflexions and phrases , the pronunciation ( per- haps ) and much of ...
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... original , and , if we may so say , primitive character , a pathos of a peculiar sort , but still real , and springing out of the intimate per- suasion and deep affections of the poet ; a richness of images which sometimes amounts to ...
... original , and , if we may so say , primitive character , a pathos of a peculiar sort , but still real , and springing out of the intimate per- suasion and deep affections of the poet ; a richness of images which sometimes amounts to ...
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... original in- vention , and the groundwork of the Decameron must , we fear , be admitted to be discoverable in the old Indian romance of Dolos- pathos , which early found its way into the national literature of almost every country in ...
... original in- vention , and the groundwork of the Decameron must , we fear , be admitted to be discoverable in the old Indian romance of Dolos- pathos , which early found its way into the national literature of almost every country in ...
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