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That of the writer who takes his stand on some moral point , and selects a series of events for the express ... in all which writers and others like them , the groundobject of the historian colours with artificial lights the facts which ...
That of the writer who takes his stand on some moral point , and selects a series of events for the express ... in all which writers and others like them , the groundobject of the historian colours with artificial lights the facts which ...
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An examination of the leading humorous writers of the present day will lead to a nearly similar result ; -meaning by humorous , those whose peculiar aim and object it is to excite laughter ; for we are by no means desirous of engaging ...
An examination of the leading humorous writers of the present day will lead to a nearly similar result ; -meaning by humorous , those whose peculiar aim and object it is to excite laughter ; for we are by no means desirous of engaging ...
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analogy between him and other writers as may suggest themselves . These will be very few ; for though , like Mr. Sydney Smith , he excels in ludicrous exaggeration , and , like Mr. Hook , delights in middle - life and low - life ...
analogy between him and other writers as may suggest themselves . These will be very few ; for though , like Mr. Sydney Smith , he excels in ludicrous exaggeration , and , like Mr. Hook , delights in middle - life and low - life ...
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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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