The Quarterly Review, Volume 1William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1809 - English literature |
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... readers , who are jealous of all superiority , and feel a pleasure in debasing the human character . Such persons might derive great relief from consulting the valet de chambres of distinguished men , in whose eyes , it is said , no ...
... readers , who are jealous of all superiority , and feel a pleasure in debasing the human character . Such persons might derive great relief from consulting the valet de chambres of distinguished men , in whose eyes , it is said , no ...
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... readers as ourselves , though excluded by cus- tom from access to the learned languages . To them it is of in- finite importance to extend as far as possible the range of such reading as shall delight the imagination , and cultivate the ...
... readers as ourselves , though excluded by cus- tom from access to the learned languages . To them it is of in- finite importance to extend as far as possible the range of such reading as shall delight the imagination , and cultivate the ...
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... readers . At present few will be inclined to undergo the labour necessary to arrive at his recondite meaning . We do not see any necessity for adopting Mr. Pinkerton's ob- jections to the computations of Arbuthnot , against whom he ...
... readers . At present few will be inclined to undergo the labour necessary to arrive at his recondite meaning . We do not see any necessity for adopting Mr. Pinkerton's ob- jections to the computations of Arbuthnot , against whom he ...
Contents
Affaires dEspagne Nos 1 to 5 Confédération | 1 |
Reliques of Robert Burns consisting chiefly of original | 19 |
Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born | 36 |
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