The Quarterly Review, Volumes 270-271William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1938 |
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... English literature , mainly through the enthusiastic patronage of Voltaire and Lessing , became at all widely known and appreciated in Europe . The predominance of Italian and French literature had till then been undisputed . Even ...
... English literature , mainly through the enthusiastic patronage of Voltaire and Lessing , became at all widely known and appreciated in Europe . The predominance of Italian and French literature had till then been undisputed . Even ...
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... English was obtained entirely in that country until his twenty - first year , when he made his first visit to England . I am able , chiefly from our conversations and his treasured letters to myself , to give a fuller sketch of his life ...
... English was obtained entirely in that country until his twenty - first year , when he made his first visit to England . I am able , chiefly from our conversations and his treasured letters to myself , to give a fuller sketch of his life ...
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... English coast . British residents were pretty numerous , and English was the only foreign language thought to exist , the only one then taught in the local school . ' Nevertheless , for a serious advanced student to take up the teaching ...
... English coast . British residents were pretty numerous , and English was the only foreign language thought to exist , the only one then taught in the local school . ' Nevertheless , for a serious advanced student to take up the teaching ...
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