The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 |
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... opinion , that he was a man like other people , with human appetites and a human temper , and not a saint in a picture . But the struggles , the infirmities of such heroes , are the most instructive studies possible ; the more you dwell ...
... opinion , that he was a man like other people , with human appetites and a human temper , and not a saint in a picture . But the struggles , the infirmities of such heroes , are the most instructive studies possible ; the more you dwell ...
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... opinion of his brother bards.Spenser's stanzas , ' Ben said , pleased him not , nor his matter ; Samuel Daniel was a good , honest man , but no poet ; Michael Drayton's long verses pleased him not ; Sylvester's trans- lation of Du ...
... opinion of his brother bards.Spenser's stanzas , ' Ben said , pleased him not , nor his matter ; Samuel Daniel was a good , honest man , but no poet ; Michael Drayton's long verses pleased him not ; Sylvester's trans- lation of Du ...
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... opinion agrees with mine . When we differ , there I pronounce him to be mistaken . ' power . 6 ' In time of Parliament it used to be one of the first things the House did to petition the King that his confessor might be removed , as ...
... opinion agrees with mine . When we differ , there I pronounce him to be mistaken . ' power . 6 ' In time of Parliament it used to be one of the first things the House did to petition the King that his confessor might be removed , as ...
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... opinions on their best metal . He had lived his life in a higher moral atmosphere than that of the gayest Parisian ... opinion that few learned men at all had conversational ability : but this remark must not lead us too far ; on the ...
... opinions on their best metal . He had lived his life in a higher moral atmosphere than that of the gayest Parisian ... opinion that few learned men at all had conversational ability : but this remark must not lead us too far ; on the ...
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... opinion of all the great conversers of his day : Curran , with his poetic and imaginative wildness ; De Staƫl , with her sentimental glitter ; Lut- trell's elegant epigram ; Lord Dudley's pregnant point ; the convivial brilliance of ...
... opinion of all the great conversers of his day : Curran , with his poetic and imaginative wildness ; De Staƫl , with her sentimental glitter ; Lut- trell's elegant epigram ; Lord Dudley's pregnant point ; the convivial brilliance of ...
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