The Quarterly Review, Volume 249William 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, 1927 - English literature |
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... interest never flags . As a descriptive writer , he has few if any equals , and he paints alike men and happenings in vivid phrases which cling to the memory . His rhetoric is often dazzling , but here and there it strays dangerously ...
... interest never flags . As a descriptive writer , he has few if any equals , and he paints alike men and happenings in vivid phrases which cling to the memory . His rhetoric is often dazzling , but here and there it strays dangerously ...
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... interests . ' But no such audacious scheme crossed the minds of our rulers , ' and ' It was not until the summer of 1918 that Admiral Keyes -strong in the achievement of Zeebrugge - and Admiral Wemyss installed as First Sea Lord , were ...
... interests . ' But no such audacious scheme crossed the minds of our rulers , ' and ' It was not until the summer of 1918 that Admiral Keyes -strong in the achievement of Zeebrugge - and Admiral Wemyss installed as First Sea Lord , were ...
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... interest- ing city in the United States . Mr Waldo Frank says that it is ' the city of hope , the reason is that there despair has simply not altogether won . ' It is the city of stock- yards , in Mr Frank's phrase , ' a sunken city of ...
... interest- ing city in the United States . Mr Waldo Frank says that it is ' the city of hope , the reason is that there despair has simply not altogether won . ' It is the city of stock- yards , in Mr Frank's phrase , ' a sunken city of ...
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... interest ' superfluous . " " Nearly thirty years ago , home from my first whaling trip with the Norwegians , having seen for the first time the whale at close quarters , I was naturally eager to read what had recently been written ...
... interest ' superfluous . " " Nearly thirty years ago , home from my first whaling trip with the Norwegians , having seen for the first time the whale at close quarters , I was naturally eager to read what had recently been written ...
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... interest that sustains , if it does not originally inspire , the writers . Wars apart , whaling has been for ages man's biggest adventure on the sea . So it is still , though in these days few harpoons are darted , " save from the guns ...
... interest that sustains , if it does not originally inspire , the writers . Wars apart , whaling has been for ages man's biggest adventure on the sea . So it is still , though in these days few harpoons are darted , " save from the guns ...
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