The Quarterly Review, Volume 171William 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, 1890 - English literature |
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... France , was shaky in points of grammar ; and his teaching was rather rhetorical than logical , had a tinge of absurdity in it , and did not always let the man of letters be seen through that mannerism , rather than affectation , which ...
... France , was shaky in points of grammar ; and his teaching was rather rhetorical than logical , had a tinge of absurdity in it , and did not always let the man of letters be seen through that mannerism , rather than affectation , which ...
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... France , he would have acted directly in opposition to his own interests . He admits also , that the statement of Marshal Bazaine did not necessarily imply that the English envoy at Darmstadt sent him any intelligence , either directly ...
... France , he would have acted directly in opposition to his own interests . He admits also , that the statement of Marshal Bazaine did not necessarily imply that the English envoy at Darmstadt sent him any intelligence , either directly ...
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... France again in letters a few hours later . It was therefore not unnatural that the French learned by way of England a variety of things about our army which , with greater propriety , would have remained concealed . ' Here , again ...
... France again in letters a few hours later . It was therefore not unnatural that the French learned by way of England a variety of things about our army which , with greater propriety , would have remained concealed . ' Here , again ...
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... France at any rate , would have succeeded in the delineation of what was to be recorded for posterity . In this sense , Balzac may be named with Tacitus . It has been pertinently remarked that his world is made up of passions and ...
... France at any rate , would have succeeded in the delineation of what was to be recorded for posterity . In this sense , Balzac may be named with Tacitus . It has been pertinently remarked that his world is made up of passions and ...
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... France we have known and admired . For not even M. Zola has touched the floor of this great deep , covered with a vegetation that springs only in darkness . His robust vulgarity has still some strength in it ; the wild beasts , tearing ...
... France we have known and admired . For not even M. Zola has touched the floor of this great deep , covered with a vegetation that springs only in darkness . His robust vulgarity has still some strength in it ; the wild beasts , tearing ...
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