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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... writing love verses on heaving bosoms and sparkling eyes , and twisting them into such rhythmical forms , as might suit the capricious evolutions of Scotch reels , ports , and strathspeys . Besides , this constant waste of his fancy and ...
... writing love verses on heaving bosoms and sparkling eyes , and twisting them into such rhythmical forms , as might suit the capricious evolutions of Scotch reels , ports , and strathspeys . Besides , this constant waste of his fancy and ...
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... writing , and that an affectation of enthusiasm in platonic love and devotion , was more likely to be acceptable to the fair Clarinda , than the true language of feeling . The following loose and laboured passage shews , that the ...
... writing , and that an affectation of enthusiasm in platonic love and devotion , was more likely to be acceptable to the fair Clarinda , than the true language of feeling . The following loose and laboured passage shews , that the ...
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... writers , has merits of a higher order . D. Francisco Manoel says of him that , he is a poet of the Land of Promise , all butter and honey . Francisco Manoel was writing satire when he said this ; had he been writing seriously he would ...
... writers , has merits of a higher order . D. Francisco Manoel says of him that , he is a poet of the Land of Promise , all butter and honey . Francisco Manoel was writing satire when he said this ; had he been writing seriously he would ...
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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