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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... result of this study of the ingenuous arts . Better days were coming . The removal of the Papal See to Avignon , a century earlier , had brought Italian knowledge out of Italy , and Petrarchism was taking the place of Scho- lasticism ...
... result of this study of the ingenuous arts . Better days were coming . The removal of the Papal See to Avignon , a century earlier , had brought Italian knowledge out of Italy , and Petrarchism was taking the place of Scho- lasticism ...
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... result of whose labours was the Book of Common Prayer . His sub- sequent history , the disputes at Frankfort between him and the Calvinists , Drs . Knox and Fox , his return to England and promotion to Ely , where he is said to have ...
... result of whose labours was the Book of Common Prayer . His sub- sequent history , the disputes at Frankfort between him and the Calvinists , Drs . Knox and Fox , his return to England and promotion to Ely , where he is said to have ...
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... results have falsified the expectations which the author's antecedents justified the public in forming . To his own countrymen Gustav Freytag needs no introduction . In England some mention of his special qualifications for the task ...
... results have falsified the expectations which the author's antecedents justified the public in forming . To his own countrymen Gustav Freytag needs no introduction . In England some mention of his special qualifications for the task ...
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... result was ' Die Ahnen . ' He shows himself a keen observer of superficial peculiarities . Excelling in description , he fails in presentation of character . Above all , it is difficult to him . to understand large - minded men , to ...
... result was ' Die Ahnen . ' He shows himself a keen observer of superficial peculiarities . Excelling in description , he fails in presentation of character . Above all , it is difficult to him . to understand large - minded men , to ...
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... result of a catas- trophe ; and while we pity we do not feel with them . Sympathy is a rare quality in Balzac . He harrows and rends the heart , but the eyes will never drop medicinal tears over scenes which evoke more wonder than ...
... result of a catas- trophe ; and while we pity we do not feel with them . Sympathy is a rare quality in Balzac . He harrows and rends the heart , but the eyes will never drop medicinal tears over scenes which evoke more wonder than ...
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