The Quarterly Review, Volume 171William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1890 |
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... Lord Bacon's sneer may be met not only by Gray's and Wordsworth's praise of the Royal Saint , ' but by the sober judgment of an historian who has no weakness for weak kings : - ' Henry , ' says Bishop Stubbs , ' was perhaps the most ...
... Lord Bacon's sneer may be met not only by Gray's and Wordsworth's praise of the Royal Saint , ' but by the sober judgment of an historian who has no weakness for weak kings : - ' Henry , ' says Bishop Stubbs , ' was perhaps the most ...
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... lord Treasurer , ' whose name is recorded on the base of Francis Bird's statue of the Founder , set up by him in the school yard . Mr. Lyte's account of it is as follows : — ' The work undertaken in the previous year was carried out ...
... lord Treasurer , ' whose name is recorded on the base of Francis Bird's statue of the Founder , set up by him in the school yard . Mr. Lyte's account of it is as follows : — ' The work undertaken in the previous year was carried out ...
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... Lord Carlisle . Why are we only told that Lord Wellesley wrote elegant verses , and made the King weep ' at speeches ; that his greater brother beat Bobus ' Smith in a fight , and was flogged with eighty - two others for a mutiny ; that ...
... Lord Carlisle . Why are we only told that Lord Wellesley wrote elegant verses , and made the King weep ' at speeches ; that his greater brother beat Bobus ' Smith in a fight , and was flogged with eighty - two others for a mutiny ; that ...
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... Lord Grey , and Porson , whose name lives in the school record as the founder of valuable scholarships and prizes ; how Canning and his friends of the ' Microcosm ' distinguished themselves at Speeches ; how the Oppidans went to ...
... Lord Grey , and Porson , whose name lives in the school record as the founder of valuable scholarships and prizes ; how Canning and his friends of the ' Microcosm ' distinguished themselves at Speeches ; how the Oppidans went to ...
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... Lord's ; and to set up the heroes of the Playing Fields as the leaders of their kind is to return to barbaric stan ... Lord Rosebery , Lord Lansdowne , or Lord Randolph Churchill . There are brilliant brilliant instances on the other ...
... Lord's ; and to set up the heroes of the Playing Fields as the leaders of their kind is to return to barbaric stan ... Lord Rosebery , Lord Lansdowne , or Lord Randolph Churchill . There are brilliant brilliant instances on the other ...
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