The Quarterly Review, Volumes 239-240William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1923 |
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... existence , it took recruits from the old ' music - houses , ' as before that time it took them from the fairs . It was not until the show became too ' fine ' ( to repeat the complaint of Theodore Hook ) that the decline set in ...
... existence , it took recruits from the old ' music - houses , ' as before that time it took them from the fairs . It was not until the show became too ' fine ' ( to repeat the complaint of Theodore Hook ) that the decline set in ...
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... existence until its name was discovered . Even when the term did come into use , it was not ' invented . ' It merely had been mislaid , for , long before that , Petronius had made reference to a pantomime chorus . With the beginning of ...
... existence until its name was discovered . Even when the term did come into use , it was not ' invented . ' It merely had been mislaid , for , long before that , Petronius had made reference to a pantomime chorus . With the beginning of ...
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... existence . The fun of Tumbledown Dick ; or , Phaeton in the Suds , is so good that the satire is secondary , as an excerpt will show . When the plot is taken to the country , a rustic remarks , ' It begins to grow a little lighter ...
... existence . The fun of Tumbledown Dick ; or , Phaeton in the Suds , is so good that the satire is secondary , as an excerpt will show . When the plot is taken to the country , a rustic remarks , ' It begins to grow a little lighter ...
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... existence . The change of climate , too , from , say Norfolk or Suffolk , to that of undeveloped , undrained Ulster was undoubtedly trying under pioneering con- ditions , while from the Western Lowlands , at any rate , it was no change ...
... existence . The change of climate , too , from , say Norfolk or Suffolk , to that of undeveloped , undrained Ulster was undoubtedly trying under pioneering con- ditions , while from the Western Lowlands , at any rate , it was no change ...
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... existence seemed to her to have lost its purpose . She no longer lived in the world but in the memory of her father - in - law ; whoever , like Sarah Austin , honoured him , was honoured by her , and the aim of her life was to ...
... existence seemed to her to have lost its purpose . She no longer lived in the world but in the memory of her father - in - law ; whoever , like Sarah Austin , honoured him , was honoured by her , and the aim of her life was to ...
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