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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... reader , the more dry and crabbed parts of the subject ; and re- ferring the more popular topics to the second , which ... readers , intreating them to wind round the base of the rugged ascent which they be- hold us about to climb , and ...
... reader , the more dry and crabbed parts of the subject ; and re- ferring the more popular topics to the second , which ... readers , intreating them to wind round the base of the rugged ascent which they be- hold us about to climb , and ...
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... reader will perceive , if he is in the habit of attending to the force of Greek particles , is inconsistent with the laws of syntax . Our readers are , we doubt not , tired , like ourselves , of this thorny subject ; and here , we are ...
... reader will perceive , if he is in the habit of attending to the force of Greek particles , is inconsistent with the laws of syntax . Our readers are , we doubt not , tired , like ourselves , of this thorny subject ; and here , we are ...
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... readers will recollect with what confidence the archives of Chinese and still more of Braminical learning were paraded as furnishing the surest proofs of an imme- morial and unfathomable antiquity ; but we need not say that every year ...
... readers will recollect with what confidence the archives of Chinese and still more of Braminical learning were paraded as furnishing the surest proofs of an imme- morial and unfathomable antiquity ; but we need not say that every year ...
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... readers than king Phidon ; -we mean , Pisistratus of Athens . In the pages of Mr. Mitford , this singular man appears only as the fortunate leader of a fortunate party ; in the work of M. Clavier , he is ever represented as an amiable ...
... readers than king Phidon ; -we mean , Pisistratus of Athens . In the pages of Mr. Mitford , this singular man appears only as the fortunate leader of a fortunate party ; in the work of M. Clavier , he is ever represented as an amiable ...
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... readers of poetry , Ariosto is more pleasing than Tasso ; which certainly can only arise from the fatiguing corollary which the Jerusalem Delivered forms to the siege of Troy . Of later writers it is needless and would be invidious to ...
... readers of poetry , Ariosto is more pleasing than Tasso ; which certainly can only arise from the fatiguing corollary which the Jerusalem Delivered forms to the siege of Troy . Of later writers it is needless and would be invidious to ...
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