The Quarterly Review, Volume 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1815 - English literature |
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Page 117
... taste and good sense .'- ( p . 104 . ) - Now we really do not see the taste or good sense of adorning a gallery of pictures with the busts of these men , none of whom had the least connection with the art of painting ; and we believe ...
... taste and good sense .'- ( p . 104 . ) - Now we really do not see the taste or good sense of adorning a gallery of pictures with the busts of these men , none of whom had the least connection with the art of painting ; and we believe ...
Page 227
... taste , than the marked difference which is to be observed between the turgid and inverted periods of his aca- demical orations , and the perspicuous and unaffected style of many of the letters before us , which were written when study ...
... taste , than the marked difference which is to be observed between the turgid and inverted periods of his aca- demical orations , and the perspicuous and unaffected style of many of the letters before us , which were written when study ...
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... taste for flowers ; none at least that would imply their having gardens set apart for the culture of these pleasing objects . It does not appear that they ever endeavoured to improve their own wild and indigenous plants , or that they ...
... taste for flowers ; none at least that would imply their having gardens set apart for the culture of these pleasing objects . It does not appear that they ever endeavoured to improve their own wild and indigenous plants , or that they ...
Contents
A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
The Character of Moses established for Veracity as a Historian | 96 |
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