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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... produces , yet all proceeding for ages together in mutual unison , but by gradations so inconsistent with the common rule of succession , that it probably would be a task of some little labour to discover six other such exceptions to it ...
... produces , yet all proceeding for ages together in mutual unison , but by gradations so inconsistent with the common rule of succession , that it probably would be a task of some little labour to discover six other such exceptions to it ...
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... produce conviction , they still cannot but excite admi- ration and pleasure . Perhaps , however , the English scholar may find a readier access to the New Analysis of Chronology by Dr. Hales ; who , though he seems to be imperfectly ...
... produce conviction , they still cannot but excite admi- ration and pleasure . Perhaps , however , the English scholar may find a readier access to the New Analysis of Chronology by Dr. Hales ; who , though he seems to be imperfectly ...
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... produce something new and original . The ingenuity of critics has been strained to discover common rules , which should at once apply to the Iliad and Paradise Lost ; but whoever will fairly take a view of the subject , must be ...
... produce something new and original . The ingenuity of critics has been strained to discover common rules , which should at once apply to the Iliad and Paradise Lost ; but whoever will fairly take a view of the subject , must be ...
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... produces an effect upon a nation , which may be said to resemble the languor of a confirmed melancholy , operating upon individuals . It oppresses those whom it attacks with a listless debility , and whilst the power of the disorder ...
... produces an effect upon a nation , which may be said to resemble the languor of a confirmed melancholy , operating upon individuals . It oppresses those whom it attacks with a listless debility , and whilst the power of the disorder ...
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... producing such tes- timony as would constitute a decisive proof . We have detained our readers somewhat too long from a view of the main body of the work . It commences with a description of the Russian army , and Sir Robert points out ...
... producing such tes- timony as would constitute a decisive proof . We have detained our readers somewhat too long from a view of the main body of the work . It commences with a description of the Russian army , and Sir Robert points out ...
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