The Academy, Volume 25J. Murray, 1884 - English literature |
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... Story of the Univer- sity of Elinburgh Green's ( J. R. ) The Conquest of England ( W. S. ) The High Alps of New Zealand Gregory's ( Dr. ) Prolegomena to Tisch- endorf's New Testament Grimm's ( J. ) Teutonic Mythology 125 Hake's ( A. E. ) ...
... Story of the Univer- sity of Elinburgh Green's ( J. R. ) The Conquest of England ( W. S. ) The High Alps of New Zealand Gregory's ( Dr. ) Prolegomena to Tisch- endorf's New Testament Grimm's ( J. ) Teutonic Mythology 125 Hake's ( A. E. ) ...
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... Story of the Coup d'Etat Deming's ( C. ) Byways of Nature and Life Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's Journal Dobson's ( A. ) The Vicar of Wakefield . 77 Duruy's History of Rome ... · 274 166 Sidgwick and Morice's ...
... Story of the Coup d'Etat Deming's ( C. ) Byways of Nature and Life Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's Journal Dobson's ( A. ) The Vicar of Wakefield . 77 Duruy's History of Rome ... · 274 166 Sidgwick and Morice's ...
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... story in Chaucer Burke's " Dagger Speech " Burns and Tristram Shandy . " Caesar doth bear me hard " German " Kirchenlied " Criticism , A New Departure in Cartagena , A Sixteenth - Century Plan of 62 Clan Poetry ... Comparative Mythology ...
... story in Chaucer Burke's " Dagger Speech " Burns and Tristram Shandy . " Caesar doth bear me hard " German " Kirchenlied " Criticism , A New Departure in Cartagena , A Sixteenth - Century Plan of 62 Clan Poetry ... Comparative Mythology ...
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... story , the chief actors therein stand out in a kind of heroic or superhuman isolation against the dim background of a little - known contemporary world . Their severance from the flow of the common life that constituted their real ...
... story , the chief actors therein stand out in a kind of heroic or superhuman isolation against the dim background of a little - known contemporary world . Their severance from the flow of the common life that constituted their real ...
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... Stories . By Rudolph Lindau . ( Blackwood . ) Sister Clarice . By Mrs. C. Hunter Hodgson . ( Griffith & Farran . ) Aleriel ... story of life in an English country town - Redborough , to wit - and it sets forth the fortunes , material and ...
... Stories . By Rudolph Lindau . ( Blackwood . ) Sister Clarice . By Mrs. C. Hunter Hodgson . ( Griffith & Farran . ) Aleriel ... story of life in an English country town - Redborough , to wit - and it sets forth the fortunes , material and ...
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