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His debility for many months before the end came was such as to incapacitate him for the smallest exertion - even that of writing ! Sometimes he would take up a pen , and , after a vain attempt to write , would throw it down ...
His debility for many months before the end came was such as to incapacitate him for the smallest exertion - even that of writing ! Sometimes he would take up a pen , and , after a vain attempt to write , would throw it down ...
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But there is a boyish enthusiasm about his book which , though it may over - assess the European stature of Mistral , does convince that much uncomplicated pleasure has been obtained out of writing on him .
But there is a boyish enthusiasm about his book which , though it may over - assess the European stature of Mistral , does convince that much uncomplicated pleasure has been obtained out of writing on him .
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No doubt if he had been writing for himself alone he would have had a good deal more to say about his London friend , Mrs Vanhomrigh , with whom he dined frequently , and where , while he lived in Chelsea , ' I keep my best gown and ...
No doubt if he had been writing for himself alone he would have had a good deal more to say about his London friend , Mrs Vanhomrigh , with whom he dined frequently , and where , while he lived in Chelsea , ' I keep my best gown and ...
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Contents
The Second Year of Conservative Government | 1 |
La Citta Morta | 17 |
THE QUARTERLY REVIEWS FIRST EDITOR | 32 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 292 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1954 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2022 |
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