The Quarterly Review, Volume 27John Murray, 1822 |
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... former times . George Wither , if not ab- solutely sane , yet perfectly inoffensive , was imprisoned for a series of moral poems , which dealt as much in generals as a sermon , and which would hardly have been suspected to be satires ...
... former times . George Wither , if not ab- solutely sane , yet perfectly inoffensive , was imprisoned for a series of moral poems , which dealt as much in generals as a sermon , and which would hardly have been suspected to be satires ...
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... former opinion may fairly be deduced from a passage in one of the poet's Cançoens . In describing one of the eastern islands , he says , fortune had decreed , that great part of his life should be spent there ; this has been supposed to ...
... former opinion may fairly be deduced from a passage in one of the poet's Cançoens . In describing one of the eastern islands , he says , fortune had decreed , that great part of his life should be spent there ; this has been supposed to ...
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... former was reserved for inscriptions , like our capital letters on similar occasions ; the latter , being sooner written , prevailed in manuscript lines ; indeed , the F , even in the opinion of our best critics , has almost , if not ...
... former was reserved for inscriptions , like our capital letters on similar occasions ; the latter , being sooner written , prevailed in manuscript lines ; indeed , the F , even in the opinion of our best critics , has almost , if not ...
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... former be almost invariably written Fava and the latter never Famp , without altogether confounding the numbers of each hexameter where it exists ? And how is it that the digamma , if constantly prefixed to the same word , as in ' Hpn ...
... former be almost invariably written Fava and the latter never Famp , without altogether confounding the numbers of each hexameter where it exists ? And how is it that the digamma , if constantly prefixed to the same word , as in ' Hpn ...
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... former work had made no converts on this side the At- lantic , ( with the exception of our northern brethren , to whom the subject endeared it , ) had attempted to revive it under a more taking title . A regard to justice , however ...
... former work had made no converts on this side the At- lantic , ( with the exception of our northern brethren , to whom the subject endeared it , ) had attempted to revive it under a more taking title . A regard to justice , however ...
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