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... throughout England and Scotland in search of ancestors and of some link with mediæval England , and are moping about the beauty of tradition and the common history , common ancestry , and common heritage of America and England .
... throughout England and Scotland in search of ancestors and of some link with mediæval England , and are moping about the beauty of tradition and the common history , common ancestry , and common heritage of America and England .
Page 137
The motives of the songs and dialogue were rarely far distant from the old worn ruts of common , and very common , urban domestic life , and played about the weaknesses of inebriates , landladies , pawnbrokers , lodgers , and policemen ...
The motives of the songs and dialogue were rarely far distant from the old worn ruts of common , and very common , urban domestic life , and played about the weaknesses of inebriates , landladies , pawnbrokers , lodgers , and policemen ...
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Let us keep it free from words and idioms which tend to reduce its common utility . It is the leading language of the world to - day . Think what the Dutch , the Norwegians and Danes , the Swedes , the Portuguese , the Hungarians ...
Let us keep it free from words and idioms which tend to reduce its common utility . It is the leading language of the world to - day . Think what the Dutch , the Norwegians and Danes , the Swedes , the Portuguese , the Hungarians ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 270-271 |
| Contributors | William 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 |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1938 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2022 |
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