The Quarterly Review, Volume 45William 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, 1831 - English literature |
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... house or a town , or the birth of a son . The most ordinary occasion , however , of a per- formance was , as will be seen , the season peculiarly sacred to some divinity . Wilson , Preface , p . vii . ( The Indian dramatist had no hope ...
... house or a town , or the birth of a son . The most ordinary occasion , however , of a per- formance was , as will be seen , the season peculiarly sacred to some divinity . Wilson , Preface , p . vii . ( The Indian dramatist had no hope ...
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... house opens , and the maid , " Radanika , comes out . Vasantasena , in the dark , slips within the door , and the maid is seized by mistake , but she is rescued by the gracioso , who asserts with great spirit the Brahminical dignity ...
... house opens , and the maid , " Radanika , comes out . Vasantasena , in the dark , slips within the door , and the maid is seized by mistake , but she is rescued by the gracioso , who asserts with great spirit the Brahminical dignity ...
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... house of Nanda . He has succeeded in exterminating the elder royal race , and his only object is now to secure the throne of Chandra - gupta . For this purpose he must provide him with a minister of equal ability to himself . Rakshasa ...
... house of Nanda . He has succeeded in exterminating the elder royal race , and his only object is now to secure the throne of Chandra - gupta . For this purpose he must provide him with a minister of equal ability to himself . Rakshasa ...
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... house at a very romantic spot about a mile from the place where the ship was anchored . We should be sorry to hurt such a story by abridgment , but it gives a strange picture of the manners of the higher classes since the introduction ...
... house at a very romantic spot about a mile from the place where the ship was anchored . We should be sorry to hurt such a story by abridgment , but it gives a strange picture of the manners of the higher classes since the introduction ...
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... house problem , ' Given the length of the vessel , and the number of her crew , to find the cap- tain's name ? ' This , however puzzling to freshmen , would be easy work for Mr. Sadler's mathematical skill ; accustomed as he is to ...
... house problem , ' Given the length of the vessel , and the number of her crew , to find the cap- tain's name ? ' This , however puzzling to freshmen , would be easy work for Mr. Sadler's mathematical skill ; accustomed as he is to ...
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