The Quarterly Review, Volume 36William 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, 1827 - English literature |
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... Home , of Floss , a lineal descendant of Sir James Home , of Coldingknowes , ancestor of the present Earl of Home . The poet , as is natural to a man of imagination , was tenacious of being descended from a family of rank , whose ...
... Home , of Floss , a lineal descendant of Sir James Home , of Coldingknowes , ancestor of the present Earl of Home . The poet , as is natural to a man of imagination , was tenacious of being descended from a family of rank , whose ...
Page 170
... Home . To Home the poet rigidly stuck fast and firm ; and Home he on all occasions defended as the only legiti- mate shape , to the great entertainment of his friend David ( the historian ) , whose branch of the family ( that of ...
... Home . To Home the poet rigidly stuck fast and firm ; and Home he on all occasions defended as the only legiti- mate shape , to the great entertainment of his friend David ( the historian ) , whose branch of the family ( that of ...
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... Home's connexion with the great enabled him to serve his friends , Barrow was not forgotten ; and Barrow repaid the obligation by making Home acquainted with Collins , who , in consequence , delighted with the legends of mystery which Home ...
... Home's connexion with the great enabled him to serve his friends , Barrow was not forgotten ; and Barrow repaid the obligation by making Home acquainted with Collins , who , in consequence , delighted with the legends of mystery which Home ...
Contents
No LXXI | 1 |
The Poetical Works of John Milton with Notes of | 29 |
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone Founder of the United | 61 |
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