The Quarterly Review, Volume 30William 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, 1824 |
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... islands , but all the various nations who have settled upon it by right of conquest , were of light complexion , with blue or grey eyes , and red or flaxen hair , the Romans alone excepted , and possibly also a colony from Spain ...
... islands , but all the various nations who have settled upon it by right of conquest , were of light complexion , with blue or grey eyes , and red or flaxen hair , the Romans alone excepted , and possibly also a colony from Spain ...
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... island will be consumed , and when the sun itself will be burnt out . These are natural advantages existing in new countries , as in the early ages of the world . It is obvious that Great Britain , possessing such extensive colonial ...
... island will be consumed , and when the sun itself will be burnt out . These are natural advantages existing in new countries , as in the early ages of the world . It is obvious that Great Britain , possessing such extensive colonial ...
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... island of Alcina , is full of fine poetry , of which Tasso has not scrupled to avail himself in his gorgeous description of the gar- dens of Armida . As a specimen of the present translator's ad- mirable success in rendering the ...
... island of Alcina , is full of fine poetry , of which Tasso has not scrupled to avail himself in his gorgeous description of the gar- dens of Armida . As a specimen of the present translator's ad- mirable success in rendering the ...
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... island to island , our traveller is incessant in his inquiries after krakens and sea - serpents , and especially the latter , concerning which , he says , he not only received accounts from governors and other highly respectable persons ...
... island to island , our traveller is incessant in his inquiries after krakens and sea - serpents , and especially the latter , concerning which , he says , he not only received accounts from governors and other highly respectable persons ...
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... islands , is very frequently exposed to great hardships and danger in having to cross thirty miles on the ocean from island to island ; yet he never neglects his duty . In the long dreary night of winter , when the cheering light of the ...
... islands , is very frequently exposed to great hardships and danger in having to cross thirty miles on the ocean from island to island ; yet he never neglects his duty . In the long dreary night of winter , when the cheering light of the ...
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