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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Page 22
... less behove every man in Ireland to stand firm when her restored liberty was ravished from her , because this emphatic assertor of her rights had become Lord Chancellor and the equally uncompromising assertor of British supremacy ? Well ...
... less behove every man in Ireland to stand firm when her restored liberty was ravished from her , because this emphatic assertor of her rights had become Lord Chancellor and the equally uncompromising assertor of British supremacy ? Well ...
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... less than any people under the sun . ' When life and property are constantly at stake , when scarcely a generation is permitted to die out without witnessing a rebellion , a civil war , an armed convention , or an organised resistance ...
... less than any people under the sun . ' When life and property are constantly at stake , when scarcely a generation is permitted to die out without witnessing a rebellion , a civil war , an armed convention , or an organised resistance ...
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... less than a million and a half would be required to buy them off . No less a sum than 1,260,000l . was subsequently voted to com- pensate the boroughholders ; and the mode of distribution gave plausibility to the charge that most of it ...
... less than a million and a half would be required to buy them off . No less a sum than 1,260,000l . was subsequently voted to com- pensate the boroughholders ; and the mode of distribution gave plausibility to the charge that most of it ...
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... less durable than the calm approval of the few ; and whatever outward marks of renown have been withheld from the meritorious public servant by contemporaries , will be amply made good by the discriminating judgment of posterity . ART ...
... less durable than the calm approval of the few ; and whatever outward marks of renown have been withheld from the meritorious public servant by contemporaries , will be amply made good by the discriminating judgment of posterity . ART ...
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... less pre- posterous than the rudest of our ancient Mysteries , but the national character favoured a form of drama that was in its prime little more than a simple drama of intrigue . Lope paid no more heed than Shakespeare to the ...
... less pre- posterous than the rudest of our ancient Mysteries , but the national character favoured a form of drama that was in its prime little more than a simple drama of intrigue . Lope paid no more heed than Shakespeare to the ...
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