The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 |
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... natural grace of daisies on a meadow . If we regret that the Liber Jocularis ' is lost , we regret still more that no ... nature . Of the most delicate wine a man is some- times tired ; but water is eternally fresh and new , as welcome ...
... natural grace of daisies on a meadow . If we regret that the Liber Jocularis ' is lost , we regret still more that no ... nature . Of the most delicate wine a man is some- times tired ; but water is eternally fresh and new , as welcome ...
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... nature , without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid , vicious , and low . ' These chivalrous notions from Swift may astonish , but they are worthy of his acute intellect ; and were especially need- ed in an age ...
... nature , without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid , vicious , and low . ' These chivalrous notions from Swift may astonish , but they are worthy of his acute intellect ; and were especially need- ed in an age ...
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... nature was forgotten . These were the men who , as Lockhart tells us , thought Scott's conversation common - place ; the truth being that it was rich in ease , sense , and humour ; while theirs was like the breakfasts in military novels ...
... nature was forgotten . These were the men who , as Lockhart tells us , thought Scott's conversation common - place ; the truth being that it was rich in ease , sense , and humour ; while theirs was like the breakfasts in military novels ...
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... nature , and of French nature in particular . ' The military principle is also one of its remarkable features ; the regiment is the type of the constitution of the colony , the officers in their several ranks represent the colonel , the ...
... nature , and of French nature in particular . ' The military principle is also one of its remarkable features ; the regiment is the type of the constitution of the colony , the officers in their several ranks represent the colonel , the ...
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... nature , from passions common to all man- whatever comical adventures he may fall , kind , from follies and vices of all ages . It the lover himself must be in earnest . So appeared to reflect only the surface , but , if , as it was ...
... nature , from passions common to all man- whatever comical adventures he may fall , kind , from follies and vices of all ages . It the lover himself must be in earnest . So appeared to reflect only the surface , but , if , as it was ...
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