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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... existence- of an aristocratic idler , possessed of wealth and political privi- leges , cultivating the graceful amenities of society , exercising a kindly patronage towards inferiors . Freytag struck out a line which vividly contrasted ...
... existence- of an aristocratic idler , possessed of wealth and political privi- leges , cultivating the graceful amenities of society , exercising a kindly patronage towards inferiors . Freytag struck out a line which vividly contrasted ...
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... existence of other German Kingdoms necessitated the assumption of some fresh title to represent the hegemony of Prussia . He felt that the revival of the old Imperial title was not a false antiquarian fancy , but would powerfully appeal ...
... existence of other German Kingdoms necessitated the assumption of some fresh title to represent the hegemony of Prussia . He felt that the revival of the old Imperial title was not a false antiquarian fancy , but would powerfully appeal ...
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... existence ; she was the lady of his youth , the confidante of all his thoughts , his trusted counsellor whenever she was so inclined . Arrangements of the gardens , decorations of the house , education of the children , judgments of men ...
... existence ; she was the lady of his youth , the confidante of all his thoughts , his trusted counsellor whenever she was so inclined . Arrangements of the gardens , decorations of the house , education of the children , judgments of men ...
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... existence of Homer's Troy , ' the authorship of ' Junius , ' or the drift of Mr. Gladstone's most eloquent speeches . And critics who are at all competent to speak on the subject , greatly differ in their conclusions . To some it ...
... existence of Homer's Troy , ' the authorship of ' Junius , ' or the drift of Mr. Gladstone's most eloquent speeches . And critics who are at all competent to speak on the subject , greatly differ in their conclusions . To some it ...
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... existence , and they stand bewitched and diabolic in the deep Rembrandt shadows which he affects . He took for his pro- vince the anatomy of social phenomena , the study , so he calls it in Les Employés , ' of human insect - life . And ...
... existence , and they stand bewitched and diabolic in the deep Rembrandt shadows which he affects . He took for his pro- vince the anatomy of social phenomena , the study , so he calls it in Les Employés , ' of human insect - life . And ...
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