The Quarterly Review, Volume 286William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1948 - English literature |
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Page 179
... century and probably it did , but , for England at least , we have no irrefutable recordings earlier than the 1530's . In North America , it doubtless existed in the seventeenth century , for not all the early emigrants were as ...
... century and probably it did , but , for England at least , we have no irrefutable recordings earlier than the 1530's . In North America , it doubtless existed in the seventeenth century , for not all the early emigrants were as ...
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... century , queer assumed the slang senses ' tipsy ; ill ; unfavourable ; slightly mad ' and in the twentieth , ' homosexual ' ; in the nineteenth century ( though re- corded in isolation in 1774 and 1777 : O.E.D. ) , rum assumed the ...
... century , queer assumed the slang senses ' tipsy ; ill ; unfavourable ; slightly mad ' and in the twentieth , ' homosexual ' ; in the nineteenth century ( though re- corded in isolation in 1774 and 1777 : O.E.D. ) , rum assumed the ...
Page 248
... century : the frivolity of the aristocrats or , where they were serious , their pre - occupation with their outdoor pursuits and the development of their estates , and the sceptical rationalism of the intellectuals , failed to provide ...
... century : the frivolity of the aristocrats or , where they were serious , their pre - occupation with their outdoor pursuits and the development of their estates , and the sceptical rationalism of the intellectuals , failed to provide ...
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