The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 - English literature |
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Page 4
... English society in that of Chesterfield ; which arrived at its perfection in Talleyrand and Louis XVIII . , and still survives like other traditions in the circles of Legitimacy . But Cicero's humour was very various ; nor did he ...
... English society in that of Chesterfield ; which arrived at its perfection in Talleyrand and Louis XVIII . , and still survives like other traditions in the circles of Legitimacy . But Cicero's humour was very various ; nor did he ...
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... English hexameters , was a fool ; that next himself only Fletcher and Chapman could make a masque . ' These harsh judg- ments are crowded together unqualified by a word of commendation , but the remain- der of the book is less ...
... English hexameters , was a fool ; that next himself only Fletcher and Chapman could make a masque . ' These harsh judg- ments are crowded together unqualified by a word of commendation , but the remain- der of the book is less ...
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... English language with a new word . Every year increases the popularity of Boswell's marvellous work . The world will some day do more justice to his talents , which those who cannot forgive his Toryism are far too prone to run down ...
... English language with a new word . Every year increases the popularity of Boswell's marvellous work . The world will some day do more justice to his talents , which those who cannot forgive his Toryism are far too prone to run down ...
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... English in Addi- boundaries of tragedy : in this either Sap- son and the best parts of Pope - have this pho , or some one instinct with the passion or after the example of Sappho , threw himself from the fatal rock crowned with the ...
... English in Addi- boundaries of tragedy : in this either Sap- son and the best parts of Pope - have this pho , or some one instinct with the passion or after the example of Sappho , threw himself from the fatal rock crowned with the ...
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... English novelists . Henry Fielding was the great - grandson of the Earl of Desmond , who was a son of the Earl of Denbigh . The peer of the novelist's generation asked him why they wrote their names differently , the elder line adhering ...
... English novelists . Henry Fielding was the great - grandson of the Earl of Desmond , who was a son of the Earl of Denbigh . The peer of the novelist's generation asked him why they wrote their names differently , the elder line adhering ...
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