The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 |
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... England . These are the gloomy vaticinations of a few who , like Socrates , have a morbid passion for discourse ; but on whom their auditors may possibly retaliate with the assertion that human nature is unequal to supporting them in ...
... England . These are the gloomy vaticinations of a few who , like Socrates , have a morbid passion for discourse ; but on whom their auditors may possibly retaliate with the assertion that human nature is unequal to supporting them in ...
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... Milward ' ; for , other- wise , how many readers would John Sel- den now boast in England ? Most men of letters , indeed , have had occasion to make diplomatist condemned him , we know from an anecdote told 10 Jan. Table - Talk .
... Milward ' ; for , other- wise , how many readers would John Sel- den now boast in England ? Most men of letters , indeed , have had occasion to make diplomatist condemned him , we know from an anecdote told 10 Jan. Table - Talk .
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... England in Byron's time ; and we had better not ask too curiously , Who are the men who supply its place now ? Two remarkable books - Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe , ' and the Table - Talk ' of Coleridge - have appeared since ...
... England in Byron's time ; and we had better not ask too curiously , Who are the men who supply its place now ? Two remarkable books - Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe , ' and the Table - Talk ' of Coleridge - have appeared since ...
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... England at present . The higher belles - lettres of an age are admitted to be exponents of its manners , and we find the complaint made by Mr. Disraeli , and testified to by Mr. Thackeray . How small a part is played by conversation in ...
... England at present . The higher belles - lettres of an age are admitted to be exponents of its manners , and we find the complaint made by Mr. Disraeli , and testified to by Mr. Thackeray . How small a part is played by conversation in ...
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... England some stout ker's estate at Hardwicke , near the city of hearts and useful hands which she cannot Gloucester . The principal expense fell well spare . Still there are many cases upon Mr. Baker ; the labour of superin- in which ...
... England some stout ker's estate at Hardwicke , near the city of hearts and useful hands which she cannot Gloucester . The principal expense fell well spare . Still there are many cases upon Mr. Baker ; the labour of superin- in which ...
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