The Quarterly Review, Volume 19William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1818 - English literature |
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... seen the fatal stroke which severed from its shoulders the wisest head in England - to such exorbitancy were things arrived : ' he now therefore determined to absent himself from a state of things which gave umbrage ' ( fearful ...
... seen the fatal stroke which severed from its shoulders the wisest head in England - to such exorbitancy were things arrived : ' he now therefore determined to absent himself from a state of things which gave umbrage ' ( fearful ...
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... seen wild - ducks come in flocks to a lady's call , and the water - hen hurry to the same voice with as much alacrity as the barn - door fowl . " * In his progress through Italy Evelyn's attention , according to the fashion of his age ...
... seen wild - ducks come in flocks to a lady's call , and the water - hen hurry to the same voice with as much alacrity as the barn - door fowl . " * In his progress through Italy Evelyn's attention , according to the fashion of his age ...
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... seen a little of the world . ' Thus he spoke of them , thinking of the islands alone , without the slightest reference to the glorious scenery by which they are surrounded ; nor were they in his estimation more interesting for standing ...
... seen a little of the world . ' Thus he spoke of them , thinking of the islands alone , without the slightest reference to the glorious scenery by which they are surrounded ; nor were they in his estimation more interesting for standing ...
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... seen in the rest of the civil world after Italy , France , Flanders , and the Low Country . ' The persons who pronounced this opinion must have had little curiosity with their experience , or little experience with their curiosity . The ...
... seen in the rest of the civil world after Italy , France , Flanders , and the Low Country . ' The persons who pronounced this opinion must have had little curiosity with their experience , or little experience with their curiosity . The ...
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... seen it in both places , and yet repeats the common story , which had it been fact instead of fable , would have been less remarkable than the actual and as yet unexplained phenomenon of its colour at Geneva . Adultery was then punished ...
... seen it in both places , and yet repeats the common story , which had it been fact instead of fable , would have been less remarkable than the actual and as yet unexplained phenomenon of its colour at Geneva . Adultery was then punished ...
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