The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1811 - English literature |
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... called forth and systematised a hundred family - histories which lay buried under the rubbish of centuries of barbarism ; and scarcely the name of one swift - footed or golden- haired hero has been discovered in the tattered relics of ...
... called forth and systematised a hundred family - histories which lay buried under the rubbish of centuries of barbarism ; and scarcely the name of one swift - footed or golden- haired hero has been discovered in the tattered relics of ...
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... called to believe in the Grecian history . First , there were two consociate races of Spartan kings ; and as from Eurysthenes inclusive , the lineal descent continued for sixteen reigns , so , at the very same time , from his brother ...
... called to believe in the Grecian history . First , there were two consociate races of Spartan kings ; and as from Eurysthenes inclusive , the lineal descent continued for sixteen reigns , so , at the very same time , from his brother ...
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... called an acquisition of yesterday . For , he proceeds , it appears to me that He- siod and Homer , who first instructed the Greeks on these points , flourished four hundred years before my time , and no more . • Ἡσίοδον γὰρ καὶ Όμηρον ...
... called an acquisition of yesterday . For , he proceeds , it appears to me that He- siod and Homer , who first instructed the Greeks on these points , flourished four hundred years before my time , and no more . • Ἡσίοδον γὰρ καὶ Όμηρον ...
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... called , of M. Clavier , there are two short passages , together with a note , which appear to us to call for some distinct animadversion , and this , as involving higher interests than those which occupy the attention of the mere ...
... called , of M. Clavier , there are two short passages , together with a note , which appear to us to call for some distinct animadversion , and this , as involving higher interests than those which occupy the attention of the mere ...
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... natural alliance towards all those whom he found opposed to the popular interest in the Grecian states . That some of these ty- rants , as they are called , made an excellent 32 Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . FEB .
... natural alliance towards all those whom he found opposed to the popular interest in the Grecian states . That some of these ty- rants , as they are called , made an excellent 32 Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . FEB .
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