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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... seems to have gone through the fiery trial of Mary's reign without much scorching . The names which strike our attention as connected with the school are those of Richard Cox , Head Master from 1528 to 1554 , formerly tutor to Edward VI ...
... seems to have gone through the fiery trial of Mary's reign without much scorching . The names which strike our attention as connected with the school are those of Richard Cox , Head Master from 1528 to 1554 , formerly tutor to Edward VI ...
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... seem a contradiction to speak of continuity through this period . But the continuity is that of English life . The art of the sixteenth and the following centuries is a part of the history of the country ; and this continuity was a ...
... seem a contradiction to speak of continuity through this period . But the continuity is that of English life . The art of the sixteenth and the following centuries is a part of the history of the country ; and this continuity was a ...
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... seems more akin to that of the school than that of the wayward Shelley . Gray is held in the highest honour at Eton ... seem to be a vague idea that he left the school early . It is said that Shelley himself imagined he had been sent ...
... seems more akin to that of the school than that of the wayward Shelley . Gray is held in the highest honour at Eton ... seem to be a vague idea that he left the school early . It is said that Shelley himself imagined he had been sent ...
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... seem wholly out of place as we turn over the pages of the ' Comédie Humaine and scan its two thousand figures . Whatever ... seems to us clear that one name may not inaptly be applied to the whole of it . Call it the Romantic tendency in ...
... seem wholly out of place as we turn over the pages of the ' Comédie Humaine and scan its two thousand figures . Whatever ... seems to us clear that one name may not inaptly be applied to the whole of it . Call it the Romantic tendency in ...
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... seems natural to him . Each had genius without the corresponding talents , and we assent when biographers tell us that both these singular ' Im- pressionists ' stumbled into literature rather than found it their vocation . The born ...
... seems natural to him . Each had genius without the corresponding talents , and we assent when biographers tell us that both these singular ' Im- pressionists ' stumbled into literature rather than found it their vocation . The born ...
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