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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... means will become , we will not say more entertaining , but at least less decidedly dull and oppressive . Addressing ourselves , then , in the first instance , to the former task , we here bid adieu , for a short interval , to all our ...
... means will become , we will not say more entertaining , but at least less decidedly dull and oppressive . Addressing ourselves , then , in the first instance , to the former task , we here bid adieu , for a short interval , to all our ...
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... means of stepping - stones , be has called forth and systematised a hundred family - histories which lay buried ... mean that of Usher , which , with some variations , but variations immaterial when the question is respect- ing half a ...
... means of stepping - stones , be has called forth and systematised a hundred family - histories which lay buried ... mean that of Usher , which , with some variations , but variations immaterial when the question is respect- ing half a ...
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... means of knowing . Yet this is , in some re- spects , the weaker case . For royal life was exposed to peculiar hazards in times when barbarism and war prevailed , when wars were murderous and wearing beyond all modern experience , when ...
... means of knowing . Yet this is , in some re- spects , the weaker case . For royal life was exposed to peculiar hazards in times when barbarism and war prevailed , when wars were murderous and wearing beyond all modern experience , when ...
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... means very firm believers even in the stories , commonly given , of the Inachian or Phoronean migrations ; but these are ques- tions on which we do not conceive the credit of the sacred historian to be committed . For , considering that ...
... means very firm believers even in the stories , commonly given , of the Inachian or Phoronean migrations ; but these are ques- tions on which we do not conceive the credit of the sacred historian to be committed . For , considering that ...
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... own part . Where his means of in- formation were good , his credit is of a very high order ; and it has been justly and judiciously remarked , that the simplicity of 1811. Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . 23.
... own part . Where his means of in- formation were good , his credit is of a very high order ; and it has been justly and judiciously remarked , that the simplicity of 1811. Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . 23.
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