The Academy, Volume 25J. Murray, 1884 - English literature |
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... tion between Ghizeh and Aboosir , " must be like cells in a honeycomb , lay the chambers Zawyet - el - Aryan . The alabaster basins can built by the contemporaries of Moses for hardly be anything but libation - tables of a Rameses and ...
... tion between Ghizeh and Aboosir , " must be like cells in a honeycomb , lay the chambers Zawyet - el - Aryan . The alabaster basins can built by the contemporaries of Moses for hardly be anything but libation - tables of a Rameses and ...
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... tion of English comedy with these writers un- represented would be glaringly incomplete ; but why adopt a definition which ought to exclude them ? His definition apart , Mr. Crawfurd has dealt judiciously with his embarrassment A scene ...
... tion of English comedy with these writers un- represented would be glaringly incomplete ; but why adopt a definition which ought to exclude them ? His definition apart , Mr. Crawfurd has dealt judiciously with his embarrassment A scene ...
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... tion , by Dr. V. Gross , of a house of the Stone age discovered some time ago by M. Frank at the station of Schussenried , in Wurtemberg . The floor and parts of the walls are preserved , and it is easy to gain from these relics a ...
... tion , by Dr. V. Gross , of a house of the Stone age discovered some time ago by M. Frank at the station of Schussenried , in Wurtemberg . The floor and parts of the walls are preserved , and it is easy to gain from these relics a ...
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... tion of the homely definition in the Table Talk . What is said in the sixth lecture on Shakspere's method of making his characters typical may be found , with some modification , in the Friend . Compare the seventh lecture with chap ...
... tion of the homely definition in the Table Talk . What is said in the sixth lecture on Shakspere's method of making his characters typical may be found , with some modification , in the Friend . Compare the seventh lecture with chap ...
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... tion does not read Maria Edgeworth . There is , perhaps , little cause to regret that her fashionable novels and prolix moralities are now relegated to the limbo of fossil fiction . It is greatly to be deplored , on the other hand ...
... tion does not read Maria Edgeworth . There is , perhaps , little cause to regret that her fashionable novels and prolix moralities are now relegated to the limbo of fossil fiction . It is greatly to be deplored , on the other hand ...
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