The Quarterly Review, Volume 105William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1859 |
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... common apprehension , the odds are always against the performance of a dashing exploit ; whilst the military genius discovers at a glance that they have been miscalculated or may be reversed by a new combination . Danton's famous maxim ...
... common apprehension , the odds are always against the performance of a dashing exploit ; whilst the military genius discovers at a glance that they have been miscalculated or may be reversed by a new combination . Danton's famous maxim ...
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... common understanding that no affront was implied in a joke , as when , in a debate on the Sinecure Bill , Curran declared he was the guardian of his own honour ; and Sir Boyle Roche re- Vol . 105.-No. 209 . torted , D torted , Then the ...
... common understanding that no affront was implied in a joke , as when , in a debate on the Sinecure Bill , Curran declared he was the guardian of his own honour ; and Sir Boyle Roche re- Vol . 105.-No. 209 . torted , D torted , Then the ...
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... common labourer , will do the one - a little . lawyer , a little pimp , a wicked minister , the other . " " Corry replied , and replied bitterly ; but their grand passage of arms was postponed till the 14th of February , when , the ...
... common labourer , will do the one - a little . lawyer , a little pimp , a wicked minister , the other . " " Corry replied , and replied bitterly ; but their grand passage of arms was postponed till the 14th of February , when , the ...
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... common and a noble brood . A falser remark , ' Mr. Dyce observes , I conceive , has seldom been made by critic . Shakespeare is not only immeasurably superior to the dramatists of his time , in creative power , in insight into the human ...
... common and a noble brood . A falser remark , ' Mr. Dyce observes , I conceive , has seldom been made by critic . Shakespeare is not only immeasurably superior to the dramatists of his time , in creative power , in insight into the human ...
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... common with any second being that ever existed . We might search the world for a villain so explicit in the definition of his private character as he who in the first part of Geronimo says- ' I hate Andrea ; ' cause he aims at honour ...
... common with any second being that ever existed . We might search the world for a villain so explicit in the definition of his private character as he who in the first part of Geronimo says- ' I hate Andrea ; ' cause he aims at honour ...
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