The Quarterly Review, Volumes 250-251William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1928 - English literature |
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... period of time . But in the world of fashion and manners a century is not so helpful ; for the ways of dress and of general behaviour follow no such definite course even as is the case with a wayward genius . Birth , marriage , and ...
... period of time . But in the world of fashion and manners a century is not so helpful ; for the ways of dress and of general behaviour follow no such definite course even as is the case with a wayward genius . Birth , marriage , and ...
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... period , a lady of society , wearing ' rings on her bare feet , while silk tights and a transparent chemise open to the knee composed the remainder of her costume . ' Including shoes and ornaments , the complete clothing of a lady of ...
... period , a lady of society , wearing ' rings on her bare feet , while silk tights and a transparent chemise open to the knee composed the remainder of her costume . ' Including shoes and ornaments , the complete clothing of a lady of ...
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... period . Drunkenness and other frailties of the flesh were frequent in the best families ; and the young blood , at any rate , was permitted a wide indulgence in pleasure and the enforcement of privileges which , looked at through the ...
... period . Drunkenness and other frailties of the flesh were frequent in the best families ; and the young blood , at any rate , was permitted a wide indulgence in pleasure and the enforcement of privileges which , looked at through the ...
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... period of time the United States profited tremendously , in a commercial and industrial sense , by the European War . Immense fortunes were made : prosperity pervaded our land . Our domestic trade was almost past computing ; our foreign ...
... period of time the United States profited tremendously , in a commercial and industrial sense , by the European War . Immense fortunes were made : prosperity pervaded our land . Our domestic trade was almost past computing ; our foreign ...
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... period . Charles Reade's book , written many years ago , engendered among the great mass of the population a certain amount of suspicion of doctors , particularly of doctors in connexion with insanity . That suspicion is from time to ...
... period . Charles Reade's book , written many years ago , engendered among the great mass of the population a certain amount of suspicion of doctors , particularly of doctors in connexion with insanity . That suspicion is from time to ...
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