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 66
... possessed of a handsome fortune , reprinted in 1766 twenty of the old quarto copies of the plays , and announced his plan of a complete edition , promising un- bounded courtesy as an editor , though he proved afterwards to be of all ...
... possessed of a handsome fortune , reprinted in 1766 twenty of the old quarto copies of the plays , and announced his plan of a complete edition , promising un- bounded courtesy as an editor , though he proved afterwards to be of all ...
Page 73
... possessed so ad- mirable a text of Shakespeare before ; and we would suggest to the thousands of people who are always inquiring for something interesting to read , that they should read again the works of the monarch of literature ...
... possessed so ad- mirable a text of Shakespeare before ; and we would suggest to the thousands of people who are always inquiring for something interesting to read , that they should read again the works of the monarch of literature ...
Page 102
... possessed by the laity ; and even when the Government professes what he con- siders a heterodox creed , it is the Roman Catholic layman's only ally against the encroachments of his own church . The time may perhaps be still distant when ...
... possessed by the laity ; and even when the Government professes what he con- siders a heterodox creed , it is the Roman Catholic layman's only ally against the encroachments of his own church . The time may perhaps be still distant when ...
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... possessed every virtue of the cloister except humility and meekness . Merits such as his were sure to attract the attention of Leo XII . , and by him he was employed and advanced . He had sound sense , a correct judgment , and good ...
... possessed every virtue of the cloister except humility and meekness . Merits such as his were sure to attract the attention of Leo XII . , and by him he was employed and advanced . He had sound sense , a correct judgment , and good ...
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... possessed by the other , can hardly be overpraised by our author's partiality . But our author is the first of Mezzofanti's eulogists who has ventured to assert that amiable prodigy , ' as he calls him , made an adequate use of his ...
... possessed by the other , can hardly be overpraised by our author's partiality . But our author is the first of Mezzofanti's eulogists who has ventured to assert that amiable prodigy , ' as he calls him , made an adequate use of his ...
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