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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Page 37
... successful effort of an original conception . The sto- ries , as the Greeks and Romans have told them , are trite - we might almost say with Hamlet , ' musty . ' It was a poet , doubt- less , who first invented the tale of ancient ...
... successful effort of an original conception . The sto- ries , as the Greeks and Romans have told them , are trite - we might almost say with Hamlet , ' musty . ' It was a poet , doubt- less , who first invented the tale of ancient ...
Page 56
... successful in confirming and extending the observations of Dr. Blair on the different proportions in which the prismatic spectrum is divided , according to the diversity of the substances which afford it . He has shown very clearly ...
... successful in confirming and extending the observations of Dr. Blair on the different proportions in which the prismatic spectrum is divided , according to the diversity of the substances which afford it . He has shown very clearly ...
Page 58
... employment ; they cultivated the land with success , and excited much surprise by planting a vineyard . Such indeed was the good repute which they obtained while waiting 58 APR . Missionaries ' Letters on the Nicobar Islands .
... employment ; they cultivated the land with success , and excited much surprise by planting a vineyard . Such indeed was the good repute which they obtained while waiting 58 APR . Missionaries ' Letters on the Nicobar Islands .
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... successful exertion for spreading the gospel . Wherever men are most igno- rant , most brutalized , most wretched , there they have gone to teach them the first and most essential of the arts of civilized life , and to offer them the ...
... successful exertion for spreading the gospel . Wherever men are most igno- rant , most brutalized , most wretched , there they have gone to teach them the first and most essential of the arts of civilized life , and to offer them the ...
Page 78
... success in this and in every other country where his work has been naturalized , the story was not less essentially in its favour . It acquired from its scriptural subject what may be termed imput- ed sanctity : and many of its readers ...
... success in this and in every other country where his work has been naturalized , the story was not less essentially in its favour . It acquired from its scriptural subject what may be termed imput- ed sanctity : and many of its readers ...
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