The Quarterly Review, Volume 266, Issue 527John Murray, 1936 - English literature |
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... writes with much more understanding than most English critics have shown ; of Arthur Wellesley Peel , a truly great Speaker ; of Arthur James Balfour , of John Morley , and of Andrew Bonar Law . As the text of his discourse on Balfour ...
... writes with much more understanding than most English critics have shown ; of Arthur Wellesley Peel , a truly great Speaker ; of Arthur James Balfour , of John Morley , and of Andrew Bonar Law . As the text of his discourse on Balfour ...
Page 29
... writes , part of the irony of life that I should have wished to end the Coalition with the war , and that he should then have wished to continue it , only to bring about its destruction when I had fallen heir to his inheritance and felt ...
... writes , part of the irony of life that I should have wished to end the Coalition with the war , and that he should then have wished to continue it , only to bring about its destruction when I had fallen heir to his inheritance and felt ...
Page 143
... writes Horace Walpole of the ' Decline and Fall , ' is as smooth as a Flemish picture , the muscles are concealed , and only for natural uses . ' Gibbon would have made no objection to the comparison , for as early as 1764 he writes to ...
... writes Horace Walpole of the ' Decline and Fall , ' is as smooth as a Flemish picture , the muscles are concealed , and only for natural uses . ' Gibbon would have made no objection to the comparison , for as early as 1764 he writes to ...
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