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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... persons , who by their shrieks and groans rendered the illusion complete to the spectators . ' Whether , as some will have it , the first notion of the Inferno was founded on this incident , or , according to others , it was in ...
... persons , who by their shrieks and groans rendered the illusion complete to the spectators . ' Whether , as some will have it , the first notion of the Inferno was founded on this incident , or , according to others , it was in ...
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... person as the Dutchess , a character of meaner en- ergies than the generality of those on whom the interest of the solemn drama is supposed essentially to depend , might be rendered capable of exciting a tragical degree of poetical ...
... person as the Dutchess , a character of meaner en- ergies than the generality of those on whom the interest of the solemn drama is supposed essentially to depend , might be rendered capable of exciting a tragical degree of poetical ...
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... person from whom much entertainment must ac- crue to a discerning audience . She was educated , it appears , by the Dutchess ; and here it is that we may safely observe the supe- riority of Mr. Galt over Shakspeare . Every body must be ...
... person from whom much entertainment must ac- crue to a discerning audience . She was educated , it appears , by the Dutchess ; and here it is that we may safely observe the supe- riority of Mr. Galt over Shakspeare . Every body must be ...
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... persons in Denmark who thought that the Hindoos might as well worship Jaganaut as Christ , and that christianity was not calculated for the latitude of India : the Da- nish Asiatic Company therefore granted them a settlement , with ...
... persons in Denmark who thought that the Hindoos might as well worship Jaganaut as Christ , and that christianity was not calculated for the latitude of India : the Da- nish Asiatic Company therefore granted them a settlement , with ...
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... persons , he says , who are acquainted with both lan- guages , recognize a great resemblance . Dr. Leyden could per- ceive little or no connection in the short vocabulary which Mr. Fontana has given ; but he did not notice Mr ...
... persons , he says , who are acquainted with both lan- guages , recognize a great resemblance . Dr. Leyden could per- ceive little or no connection in the short vocabulary which Mr. Fontana has given ; but he did not notice Mr ...
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