The Quarterly Review, Volume 246William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle John Murray, 1926 |
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... letters . What impresses one most in these struggles for something new , is not their originality but their immodesty , the folly of thinking that it is worth while to leave the beaten track and stand on one's head in the ditch in order ...
... letters . What impresses one most in these struggles for something new , is not their originality but their immodesty , the folly of thinking that it is worth while to leave the beaten track and stand on one's head in the ditch in order ...
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... letters . The spirit of adventure which led them to explore the Greek and Latin manu- scripts of their patrons spread outwards to the artists and the craftsmen . In all cases , in Italy , as later in France and England , the ...
... letters . The spirit of adventure which led them to explore the Greek and Latin manu- scripts of their patrons spread outwards to the artists and the craftsmen . In all cases , in Italy , as later in France and England , the ...
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... Letters of Pliny . With an English translation by William Melmoth , revised by W. M. L. Hutchinson . Loeb Classical Library . Heinemann , 1915 . 4. Darembourg et Saglio . Dictionnaire des Antiquités grecques et romaines . Tom . II , Art ...
... Letters of Pliny . With an English translation by William Melmoth , revised by W. M. L. Hutchinson . Loeb Classical Library . Heinemann , 1915 . 4. Darembourg et Saglio . Dictionnaire des Antiquités grecques et romaines . Tom . II , Art ...
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... letter . It is important in these matters to notice the intervals of time between alleged occurrences and the accounts which we possess . When Rufus was a young man , that is , perhaps a century before Pliny's letter , he had a post in ...
... letter . It is important in these matters to notice the intervals of time between alleged occurrences and the accounts which we possess . When Rufus was a young man , that is , perhaps a century before Pliny's letter , he had a post in ...
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... letter . The story is as follows . ( I give Melmoth's translation , as revised in the Loeb Classics . ) ' There was at Athens a large and spacious , but ill - reputed and pestilential house . In the dead of the night a noise ...
... letter . The story is as follows . ( I give Melmoth's translation , as revised in the Loeb Classics . ) ' There was at Athens a large and spacious , but ill - reputed and pestilential house . In the dead of the night a noise ...
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