The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 |
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... language - and contained his off hand remarks on men and things , delivered with the most entire freedom . In 1669 appeared a similar record , taken by one Vertunien , a physician of Poitiers , at a much earlier period , and this its ...
... language - and contained his off hand remarks on men and things , delivered with the most entire freedom . In 1669 appeared a similar record , taken by one Vertunien , a physician of Poitiers , at a much earlier period , and this its ...
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... language with a new word . Every year increases the popularity of Boswell's marvellous work . The world will some day do more justice to his talents , which those who cannot forgive his Toryism are far too prone to run down ; for he ...
... language with a new word . Every year increases the popularity of Boswell's marvellous work . The world will some day do more justice to his talents , which those who cannot forgive his Toryism are far too prone to run down ; for he ...
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... language of such infinite pliancy yet such perfect purity , the unrivalled harmony of his verse make his works invaluable to us - for the fulness , namely , of local and temporary allusion , and his almost utter incomprehen- sibility to ...
... language of such infinite pliancy yet such perfect purity , the unrivalled harmony of his verse make his works invaluable to us - for the fulness , namely , of local and temporary allusion , and his almost utter incomprehen- sibility to ...
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... language , which might seem still to assert the intellectual superior- ity of Athens over her barbarous neighbours and conquerors , and so at once to flatter the national vanity , and charm the most fastidious ; versification which ...
... language , which might seem still to assert the intellectual superior- ity of Athens over her barbarous neighbours and conquerors , and so at once to flatter the national vanity , and charm the most fastidious ; versification which ...
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... language with which it is spoken of by Horace : - 6 ' Sed in vitium libertas excidit et vim Dignam lege regi : lex est accepta , chorusque Turpiter obticuit , sublato jure nocendi . ' Ars Poet . 282 . " But the Knights , ' the Peace ...
... language with which it is spoken of by Horace : - 6 ' Sed in vitium libertas excidit et vim Dignam lege regi : lex est accepta , chorusque Turpiter obticuit , sublato jure nocendi . ' Ars Poet . 282 . " But the Knights , ' the Peace ...
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