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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... ideas ; and that , while he has bestowed much labour in proving what never was controverted , he has begged the whole of the question really at issue . When it is affirmed , by VOL , V. NO . IX . 2 the followers of Newton , to be highly ...
... ideas ; and that , while he has bestowed much labour in proving what never was controverted , he has begged the whole of the question really at issue . When it is affirmed , by VOL , V. NO . IX . 2 the followers of Newton , to be highly ...
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... ideas are sublimed , and the ima- gination kindled by an impulse which he can neither guide nor with- stand . They have proceeded in pathetic strains to state the hard- ship of a profession in which their exertions , if successful , are ...
... ideas are sublimed , and the ima- gination kindled by an impulse which he can neither guide nor with- stand . They have proceeded in pathetic strains to state the hard- ship of a profession in which their exertions , if successful , are ...
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... idea of intolerable torture existing for such a length of time ; and although the poet has judiciously broken the ... ideas even of sentimental affection , from the pangs of jealousy and the tumults of desire , that we can hardly ...
... idea of intolerable torture existing for such a length of time ; and although the poet has judiciously broken the ... ideas even of sentimental affection , from the pangs of jealousy and the tumults of desire , that we can hardly ...
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... idea of the immense quarries , in which the author must have laboured , and of the taste , skill , and labour necessary to fashion such unwieldy ma- terials into the beautiful forms which they exhibit in the text . Every theme , however ...
... idea of the immense quarries , in which the author must have laboured , and of the taste , skill , and labour necessary to fashion such unwieldy ma- terials into the beautiful forms which they exhibit in the text . Every theme , however ...
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... idea of vigorously resisting Buonaparte upon the continent , we see in the struggles which have ennobled some , and in the reverses which have overturned others of the continental powers , an additional motive for energy and ...
... idea of vigorously resisting Buonaparte upon the continent , we see in the struggles which have ennobled some , and in the reverses which have overturned others of the continental powers , an additional motive for energy and ...
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