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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Page 10
... feet in diameter were growing in this prodigious cage , besides cypress , myrtles , lentiles , and other rare shrubs , which serve to nestle and perch all sorts of birds , who have air and place enough under their airy canopy ...
... feet in diameter were growing in this prodigious cage , besides cypress , myrtles , lentiles , and other rare shrubs , which serve to nestle and perch all sorts of birds , who have air and place enough under their airy canopy ...
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... feet in length , is mentioned in the description of the buildings ; -in that age attempts were made to naturalize the camel in Europe , -there were no less than eighty at Aranjuez , but even in that climate the experiment failed . There ...
... feet in length , is mentioned in the description of the buildings ; -in that age attempts were made to naturalize the camel in Europe , -there were no less than eighty at Aranjuez , but even in that climate the experiment failed . There ...
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... feet ; in panta- loons and Wellington boots , either marching up and down with their hands in their pockets , or seated on chairs poised on the hind - feet , and the backs rested against the walls . If a hundred Americans of any class ...
... feet ; in panta- loons and Wellington boots , either marching up and down with their hands in their pockets , or seated on chairs poised on the hind - feet , and the backs rested against the walls . If a hundred Americans of any class ...
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... feet high , without a glimpse of the surrounding country , is oppressive to a degree which those cannot con- ceive who have not experienced it ; and it must depress the spirits of the solitary settler to pass years in this state . His ...
... feet high , without a glimpse of the surrounding country , is oppressive to a degree which those cannot con- ceive who have not experienced it ; and it must depress the spirits of the solitary settler to pass years in this state . His ...
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... feet , and surrounded by a worm - fence , or ziz - zag railing . You hear of an elegant mill , an ele gant orchard , an elegant tan - yard , & c . and familiarly of elegant roads , -meaning such as you may pass without extreme peril ...
... feet , and surrounded by a worm - fence , or ziz - zag railing . You hear of an elegant mill , an ele gant orchard , an elegant tan - yard , & c . and familiarly of elegant roads , -meaning such as you may pass without extreme peril ...
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