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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... quoting two or three passages from an author , renowned in other walks , and as active and sagacious a politician as this country had at that epoch bred - Lord Bacon . We can give but a few specimens : a careful collection of the famous ...
... quoting two or three passages from an author , renowned in other walks , and as active and sagacious a politician as this country had at that epoch bred - Lord Bacon . We can give but a few specimens : a careful collection of the famous ...
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... quoted as they recognise the indestructible vitality of Virgil's literary character among the vicissitudes of the Roman decadence , or survey the still more extraordinary phases of his later medieval reputation . The history of both ...
... quoted as they recognise the indestructible vitality of Virgil's literary character among the vicissitudes of the Roman decadence , or survey the still more extraordinary phases of his later medieval reputation . The history of both ...
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... him .'- ' Targum of Palestine , ' quoted by S. Baring - Gould , Legends of Old Testament Characters , vol . i . p . 88 . legend Signor legend of Virgil undergoes no further modification . Comparetti 104 Virgil in the Middle Ages .
... him .'- ' Targum of Palestine , ' quoted by S. Baring - Gould , Legends of Old Testament Characters , vol . i . p . 88 . legend Signor legend of Virgil undergoes no further modification . Comparetti 104 Virgil in the Middle Ages .
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... quoted in England as well as in France , and translations and imitations have abounded in all countries . The extra - pious priest who talks religion while he schemes seduction , who forbids innocent plea- sures to others and enjoys ...
... quoted in England as well as in France , and translations and imitations have abounded in all countries . The extra - pious priest who talks religion while he schemes seduction , who forbids innocent plea- sures to others and enjoys ...
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... quoting various passages from these entries , that particular mention is made of the crossbow throughout the earlier portion of these records , and the birds killed with that weapon , as cranes , mallards , wild geese , bitterns ...
... quoting various passages from these entries , that particular mention is made of the crossbow throughout the earlier portion of these records , and the birds killed with that weapon , as cranes , mallards , wild geese , bitterns ...
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