The Quarterly Review, Volume 50William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1834 |
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... expressions are to us quite novel , as for instance- the pri- meval mind that emanated all this gracefulness , ' ( vol . i . p . 190 :) the corporeal appetites were furnished in order to supplement the defects of human prudence , ' ( ib ...
... expressions are to us quite novel , as for instance- the pri- meval mind that emanated all this gracefulness , ' ( vol . i . p . 190 :) the corporeal appetites were furnished in order to supplement the defects of human prudence , ' ( ib ...
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... expression and every loose obser- vation of all Pope's biographers , a combination of bad qualities of which Mr. Bowles ' picture gives but a very faint idea . Pope , ' says this candid defender of his fame , was irascible , capricious ...
... expression and every loose obser- vation of all Pope's biographers , a combination of bad qualities of which Mr. Bowles ' picture gives but a very faint idea . Pope , ' says this candid defender of his fame , was irascible , capricious ...
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... expressions of remorse by Sir John Hawkins . ) ' -Madden , vol . i . p . 245 . Boswell , from whose reproaches against Hawkins Mr. Madden has fabricated this malignant insinuation of murder , proves that Johnson's supposed remorse ...
... expressions of remorse by Sir John Hawkins . ) ' -Madden , vol . i . p . 245 . Boswell , from whose reproaches against Hawkins Mr. Madden has fabricated this malignant insinuation of murder , proves that Johnson's supposed remorse ...
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... expression , and the confusion and contradiction of his deductions . But as to Sir Walter Scott , so long our friend and fellow - labourer , we must say a few reluctant words : -We were at first at a loss to know how he was to be made ...
... expression , and the confusion and contradiction of his deductions . But as to Sir Walter Scott , so long our friend and fellow - labourer , we must say a few reluctant words : -We were at first at a loss to know how he was to be made ...
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... expressing comedy by colours more success- fully than others did by words , the inimitable rival of Molière ' . says , that having thus far considered him as an author , it is time to speak of him as a painter ; ' and that as a painter ...
... expressing comedy by colours more success- fully than others did by words , the inimitable rival of Molière ' . says , that having thus far considered him as an author , it is time to speak of him as a painter ; ' and that as a painter ...
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