The Quarterly Review, Volume 59William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1837 |
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... tory , None that can match the beauty of thy smiles , My Tuscan Flow'ret , of that clime the glory ! Hence wherefore should I roam , or gaze at even , Or pant for summer , or the gorgeous mead ? ' - p . 48 . We We will not insist on the ...
... tory , None that can match the beauty of thy smiles , My Tuscan Flow'ret , of that clime the glory ! Hence wherefore should I roam , or gaze at even , Or pant for summer , or the gorgeous mead ? ' - p . 48 . We We will not insist on the ...
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... tories of national power to overbear another . We sincerely believe that the people of England , when they gave their assent to the Reform Bill , never thought of the extent of power with which they were thereby investing what is called ...
... tories of national power to overbear another . We sincerely believe that the people of England , when they gave their assent to the Reform Bill , never thought of the extent of power with which they were thereby investing what is called ...
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... Tory oppo- sition ? Have they joined in any factious cry - have they taken ad- vantage of popular delusions to embarrass the Government ? What , if the Tories had , ( as many of them could conscientiously have done , ) combined with Mr ...
... Tory oppo- sition ? Have they joined in any factious cry - have they taken ad- vantage of popular delusions to embarrass the Government ? What , if the Tories had , ( as many of them could conscientiously have done , ) combined with Mr ...
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... Tories had given her Majesty such unconstitutional and insidious advice as the following : - " That the Queen should ... Tory advice of that day ; which gave as much offence to the contemporary Whigs as , we suppose , the very quo ...
... Tories had given her Majesty such unconstitutional and insidious advice as the following : - " That the Queen should ... Tory advice of that day ; which gave as much offence to the contemporary Whigs as , we suppose , the very quo ...
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... Tory gentry to admit these book - making foreigners into their private society . Mr. Cooper says : - ' One thing has struck me as at least odd . Coming , as I did , into this country without letters , ( those sent by Mr. Spenser ...
... Tory gentry to admit these book - making foreigners into their private society . Mr. Cooper says : - ' One thing has struck me as at least odd . Coming , as I did , into this country without letters , ( those sent by Mr. Spenser ...
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