The Quarterly Review, Volumes 241-242William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1924 |
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... feels that he should have passed with the bittern and the bustard , and such doubtless would have been his fate but for the measure of protec tion and assistance he has received . But beautiful bird as he is , wild and romantic as his ...
... feels that he should have passed with the bittern and the bustard , and such doubtless would have been his fate but for the measure of protec tion and assistance he has received . But beautiful bird as he is , wild and romantic as his ...
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... feel if the taste for humc is declining , or even if it is declining relatively to t taste for the laughterless kinds of literature ! I am positive that there is any cause for such apprehensio but the pessimist will have it that the ...
... feel if the taste for humc is declining , or even if it is declining relatively to t taste for the laughterless kinds of literature ! I am positive that there is any cause for such apprehensio but the pessimist will have it that the ...
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... feel too sensitive to charges of cruelty in our laughter at pain and accident in comic literature . There may be a spice of cruelty in our amusement as in our amusement at a member of Parliament who sits down on his hat , but it is an ...
... feel too sensitive to charges of cruelty in our laughter at pain and accident in comic literature . There may be a spice of cruelty in our amusement as in our amusement at a member of Parliament who sits down on his hat , but it is an ...
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... feel as incomplete without a copy of ' Happy Thoughts ' as a civilised home would feel to - day without the two volumes of ' Alice . ' Burnand himself in his preface warned his readers of the essential ordi- nariness of his book . He ...
... feel as incomplete without a copy of ' Happy Thoughts ' as a civilised home would feel to - day without the two volumes of ' Alice . ' Burnand himself in his preface warned his readers of the essential ordi- nariness of his book . He ...
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... feeling about it to this day has its roots in , and is governed by , the subconscious recollection of that fact . It is hardly too much to say that Venetian history centres around the effort to make the Adriatic a mare clausum . The ...
... feeling about it to this day has its roots in , and is governed by , the subconscious recollection of that fact . It is hardly too much to say that Venetian history centres around the effort to make the Adriatic a mare clausum . The ...
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