The Quarterly Review, Volumes 256-257William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1931 |
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... FitzGerald says . He had what probably was a common Viking failing , a love of strong potions . FitzGerald cannot blind himself to this . But there were some curious financial transactions between them . They went halves in a fishing ...
... FitzGerald says . He had what probably was a common Viking failing , a love of strong potions . FitzGerald cannot blind himself to this . But there were some curious financial transactions between them . They went halves in a fishing ...
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... FitzGerald had found place . It goes thus in Mr Justin McCarthy's translation : The temples of all the gods are ... FitzGerald's own mind was not quite open to admit such spacious thought as this . Although the materialism which came ...
... FitzGerald had found place . It goes thus in Mr Justin McCarthy's translation : The temples of all the gods are ... FitzGerald's own mind was not quite open to admit such spacious thought as this . Although the materialism which came ...
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... FitzGerald did , of forgetting that ancient wisdom alto- gether . It has been written that Omar is dry as desert sand beside the green oasis of FitzGerald . Yet I have no Persian , but reading the literal translations suffices to show ...
... FitzGerald did , of forgetting that ancient wisdom alto- gether . It has been written that Omar is dry as desert sand beside the green oasis of FitzGerald . Yet I have no Persian , but reading the literal translations suffices to show ...
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