The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 |
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... letter of introduction . To the Table - Talk , more than to any other work , Europe owes the personal familiarity which it has with the Reformer , and nobody but a good man could have borne the test of this kind of revelation . Yet it ...
... letter of introduction . To the Table - Talk , more than to any other work , Europe owes the personal familiarity which it has with the Reformer , and nobody but a good man could have borne the test of this kind of revelation . Yet it ...
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... letters . His talk smells a little of ed it to the object of his condescension in an the lamp ; but then his lamp is of the most elegant saying . If I had known , ' he would elegant form and the best fashion . He has remark , a more ...
... letters . His talk smells a little of ed it to the object of his condescension in an the lamp ; but then his lamp is of the most elegant saying . If I had known , ' he would elegant form and the best fashion . He has remark , a more ...
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... criminating Richard Milward ' ; for , other- wise , how many readers would John Sel- den now boast in England ? Most men of letters , indeed , have had occasion to make " allowed to sit down and dine with us . ' 10 Jan. Table - Talk .
... criminating Richard Milward ' ; for , other- wise , how many readers would John Sel- den now boast in England ? Most men of letters , indeed , have had occasion to make " allowed to sit down and dine with us . ' 10 Jan. Table - Talk .
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... letters , we shall find that they were either men fit for action , but kept out of it by accident , like Dr. Johnson ; or at once , men of letters and men of action , like Swift . If we take the conversational poets , we shall find them ...
... letters , we shall find that they were either men fit for action , but kept out of it by accident , like Dr. Johnson ; or at once , men of letters and men of action , like Swift . If we take the conversational poets , we shall find them ...
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... letters ; and if , as we believe , the test of Table - Talk be its worthiness to take a place as literature after its immediate effect has been pro- duced , where shall we look for its match ? It has a style of its own , and cannot be ...
... letters ; and if , as we believe , the test of Table - Talk be its worthiness to take a place as literature after its immediate effect has been pro- duced , where shall we look for its match ? It has a style of its own , and cannot be ...
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