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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... hundred plays and four hundred sacramental dramas of his composition were said to have been acted and printed . This statement has been generally followed without suspicion . Lord Holland perceives that it is greatly exaggerated , and ...
... hundred plays and four hundred sacramental dramas of his composition were said to have been acted and printed . This statement has been generally followed without suspicion . Lord Holland perceives that it is greatly exaggerated , and ...
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... hundred per sheet , or one thousand per day . Stans pede in uno he might have written many of his verses at this rate , just as Signor Luigi Silvestri , who is now exhibiting as an improvvisatore in Italy , could talk them ; -but all ...
... hundred per sheet , or one thousand per day . Stans pede in uno he might have written many of his verses at this rate , just as Signor Luigi Silvestri , who is now exhibiting as an improvvisatore in Italy , could talk them ; -but all ...
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... hundred more . Yet he is charged with com- plaining most unreasonably ' of neglect , ill - usage , and poverty . Who , ' says Lord Holland , could read without surprize his letter to his son , dissuading him from the study of poetry as ...
... hundred more . Yet he is charged with com- plaining most unreasonably ' of neglect , ill - usage , and poverty . Who , ' says Lord Holland , could read without surprize his letter to his son , dissuading him from the study of poetry as ...
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... hundred Spa- niards had routed a thousand English , and killed three hundred of them : as many more had been slain at Puerto Rico and in the Canaries ; their two commanders had perished , and of a fleet of fifty four sail which left ...
... hundred Spa- niards had routed a thousand English , and killed three hundred of them : as many more had been slain at Puerto Rico and in the Canaries ; their two commanders had perished , and of a fleet of fifty four sail which left ...
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... hundred thousand ducats , which he had taken in her ; and she exhorts him to undertake a second expe- dition in hope of equal success . In the progress of the expedition , Lope tells us , that some ships were lost , and the people who ...
... hundred thousand ducats , which he had taken in her ; and she exhorts him to undertake a second expe- dition in hope of equal success . In the progress of the expedition , Lope tells us , that some ships were lost , and the people who ...
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Page 457 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
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