The Quarterly Review, Volume 266, Issue 527John Murray, 1936 |
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Page 27
... sense of humour was not less acute than Briand's , and if his wit was neither so incisive nor so ready , he was not ... sense in which the description is generally applied , but in the sense of a man deliberately apprenticed to the craft ...
... sense of humour was not less acute than Briand's , and if his wit was neither so incisive nor so ready , he was not ... sense in which the description is generally applied , but in the sense of a man deliberately apprenticed to the craft ...
Page 66
... sense were beginning to be terribly apparent . Hardy , like Ruskin , was appalled , and in vigorous reaction from the optimism of the high Victorian and Tennysonian tradition he turned to scenes and manners which did not , on the whole ...
... sense were beginning to be terribly apparent . Hardy , like Ruskin , was appalled , and in vigorous reaction from the optimism of the high Victorian and Tennysonian tradition he turned to scenes and manners which did not , on the whole ...
Page 141
... sense in which all history is coin- cidence the internal decay of the Roman spirit and organisation coinciding with the invasions of the bar- barians ; the geographical discoveries of new worlds coinciding with the astronomical ...
... sense in which all history is coin- cidence the internal decay of the Roman spirit and organisation coinciding with the invasions of the bar- barians ; the geographical discoveries of new worlds coinciding with the astronomical ...
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