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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... opinion that the fading chaplet which we have flung on the tomb of this second Bacon , this other hope of British philosophy , can lose any part of its humble merit as a tribute to genius , because it is also intended as an offering to ...
... opinion that the fading chaplet which we have flung on the tomb of this second Bacon , this other hope of British philosophy , can lose any part of its humble merit as a tribute to genius , because it is also intended as an offering to ...
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... opinion of the author , not merely , ( which is the universal opinion , ) that to the effect of this singular frame of laws must be traced that martial spirit and hardi- hood , which rendered the Spartan people so capacious of empire ...
... opinion of the author , not merely , ( which is the universal opinion , ) that to the effect of this singular frame of laws must be traced that martial spirit and hardi- hood , which rendered the Spartan people so capacious of empire ...
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... ouvrage . - Tom . ii . pp . 141 , 142 . Although we have not sufficiently informed ourselves to give a decisive opinion on the matter of these extracts , we 1811. Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . 29.
... ouvrage . - Tom . ii . pp . 141 , 142 . Although we have not sufficiently informed ourselves to give a decisive opinion on the matter of these extracts , we 1811. Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . 29.
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... opinion on the matter of these extracts , we have been much gratified by them , and hope to derive great pleasure from the peru- sal of the promised comparison between the two republics . At the same time , were we stationed at the ...
... opinion on the matter of these extracts , we have been much gratified by them , and hope to derive great pleasure from the peru- sal of the promised comparison between the two republics . At the same time , were we stationed at the ...
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... opinion of the author's force of imagination and power of expression . The passages which we have quoted will bear us out in asserting that no bard of modern days possesses a more abundant share of imagination , the highest of poetic ...
... opinion of the author's force of imagination and power of expression . The passages which we have quoted will bear us out in asserting that no bard of modern days possesses a more abundant share of imagination , the highest of poetic ...
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