The Quarterly Review, Volume 18William 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, 1818 |
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... given * Mi hermano Bartolo Se va a Ingalaterra , A matar el Draque , Y a prender la Reyna , Y a los Luteranos De la Bandomessa : Tiene de traerme A mi de la guerra , Un Luteranico Con una cadena , Yuna Luterana A Señora aguela ...
... given * Mi hermano Bartolo Se va a Ingalaterra , A matar el Draque , Y a prender la Reyna , Y a los Luteranos De la Bandomessa : Tiene de traerme A mi de la guerra , Un Luteranico Con una cadena , Yuna Luterana A Señora aguela ...
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... given way ; abandoning himself to the Manichean superstitions of the corrupted church of Rome , he refused to eat meat when his declining health rendered it necessary , because he thought it expedient for the health of the body to ...
... given way ; abandoning himself to the Manichean superstitions of the corrupted church of Rome , he refused to eat meat when his declining health rendered it necessary , because he thought it expedient for the health of the body to ...
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... given a fac simile of Lope's hand - writing , and though it cannot be compared to that of a living dramatist , one of whose plays in the original manuscript is said to be a sufficient load for a porter , it is evident that one of ...
... given a fac simile of Lope's hand - writing , and though it cannot be compared to that of a living dramatist , one of whose plays in the original manuscript is said to be a sufficient load for a porter , it is evident that one of ...
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... given him a place , not only with statesmen and generals , but among the most heroic names of his- tory . No common frame of mind , and no ordinary foresight were evinced in his remark , that Don Quixote would be the ruin of Spain . It ...
... given him a place , not only with statesmen and generals , but among the most heroic names of his- tory . No common frame of mind , and no ordinary foresight were evinced in his remark , that Don Quixote would be the ruin of Spain . It ...
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... given with as much precision as the facts ; Cavendish is called Candir ; Hawkins , Achines ; and Sir Thomas Baskerville is metamorphosed into Don Thomas Vasuile . It opens in a bold spirit of Catholic fiction . Christianity appears ...
... given with as much precision as the facts ; Cavendish is called Candir ; Hawkins , Achines ; and Sir Thomas Baskerville is metamorphosed into Don Thomas Vasuile . It opens in a bold spirit of Catholic fiction . Christianity appears ...
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