The Quarterly Review, Volume 139William 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, 1875 |
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... never before united in itself under one king . A King in the strength of his years , supported with great alliances abroad , established with royal issue at home , at peace with all the world , practised in the regiment of such a ...
... never before united in itself under one king . A King in the strength of his years , supported with great alliances abroad , established with royal issue at home , at peace with all the world , practised in the regiment of such a ...
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... never caught sight , of them . He had no beauty of presence ; the glow of natural courage which had distinguished both his house and the house which had preceded it in England , had died in him from the terrible shock of the murder of ...
... never caught sight , of them . He had no beauty of presence ; the glow of natural courage which had distinguished both his house and the house which had preceded it in England , had died in him from the terrible shock of the murder of ...
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... never quite settled , in general conversation . The anterooms of politics would be maintained in perpetual motion and expectation , and would find this tempting food always close at hand . The favourite himself was to be as much as ...
... never quite settled , in general conversation . The anterooms of politics would be maintained in perpetual motion and expectation , and would find this tempting food always close at hand . The favourite himself was to be as much as ...
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... never dispel the coldness and dulness which clog his way through business . When his heart is most in his work , when he expatiates on the attributes and prerogatives of his crown , the elucidation is that rather of a herald than of a ...
... never dispel the coldness and dulness which clog his way through business . When his heart is most in his work , when he expatiates on the attributes and prerogatives of his crown , the elucidation is that rather of a herald than of a ...
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... never surveyed the wider scene ; if his mind had been quite abstracted from Europe and the other continents into which the European was making a new way ; if , within his province as King , his eye had rested only on one dividing line ...
... never surveyed the wider scene ; if his mind had been quite abstracted from Europe and the other continents into which the European was making a new way ; if , within his province as King , his eye had rested only on one dividing line ...
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