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If ever he deviates into any originality of thought , he takes care that it shall be such as excites surprise for its acuteness rather than admiration for its profundity . He takes care ! -say rather , that nature took care for him .
If ever he deviates into any originality of thought , he takes care that it shall be such as excites surprise for its acuteness rather than admiration for its profundity . He takes care ! -say rather , that nature took care for him .
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He carried out the prevailing feeling of Europe in words that breathed in thoughts of fire ; while his ignorant imitators , unable to fathom or keep pace with his deep and mighty torrent , thought they raised themselves by aping those ...
He carried out the prevailing feeling of Europe in words that breathed in thoughts of fire ; while his ignorant imitators , unable to fathom or keep pace with his deep and mighty torrent , thought they raised themselves by aping those ...
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I thought not so much in words and pronunciation , as in intonation , and in the signification of certain terms . Still I thought I could always tell an Englishman from an American , in the course of five minutes ' conversation .
I thought not so much in words and pronunciation , as in intonation , and in the signification of certain terms . Still I thought I could always tell an Englishman from an American , in the course of five minutes ' conversation .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1837 |
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