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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... living me- mory , with the marked advantage of being far better edited than most of them . There is hardly an allusion , a reference , a dubious passage , or a disputed fact , in the three volumes , which has not been pointed ...
... living me- mory , with the marked advantage of being far better edited than most of them . There is hardly an allusion , a reference , a dubious passage , or a disputed fact , in the three volumes , which has not been pointed ...
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... living in princely state in palaces ; of making one's own fortune and that of one's friends ; of working out those schemes of public improvement which every ardent spirit has cherished ; of extending or consolidating an empire ; of ...
... living in princely state in palaces ; of making one's own fortune and that of one's friends ; of working out those schemes of public improvement which every ardent spirit has cherished ; of extending or consolidating an empire ; of ...
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... living sons - when she ' Saw History write , with a pencil of light , That illumined whole pages , her Wellington's name * she had literally no alternative but to be governed by her so- called called sister through the medium of an ...
... living sons - when she ' Saw History write , with a pencil of light , That illumined whole pages , her Wellington's name * she had literally no alternative but to be governed by her so- called called sister through the medium of an ...
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... living human interest won more upon the people than the allegorical ma- chinery to which it was attached , increased stress came to be laid upon the acts of men and women . Of this gradation no writer upon our English drama has pointed ...
... living human interest won more upon the people than the allegorical ma- chinery to which it was attached , increased stress came to be laid upon the acts of men and women . Of this gradation no writer upon our English drama has pointed ...
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... living dialogue ; they no longer seemed to exchange set speeches , but every man talked according to his character and station . It is said by John- son , in commendation of Shakespeare , that his contemporaries painted individuals ...
... living dialogue ; they no longer seemed to exchange set speeches , but every man talked according to his character and station . It is said by John- son , in commendation of Shakespeare , that his contemporaries painted individuals ...
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