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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... German , who lived with the men of letters of his time both in England and in 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 ...
... German , who lived with the men of letters of his time both in England and in 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 ...
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... German army to victory , and who , as Freytag repeatedly asserts , originated the idea of the German Empire , were eagerly expected . Few books attained so wide a circulation in so short a time . But the volume gained only that ...
... German army to victory , and who , as Freytag repeatedly asserts , originated the idea of the German Empire , were eagerly expected . Few books attained so wide a circulation in so short a time . But the volume gained only that ...
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... German master of fiction raises in his present volume . Recent changes in the domestic policy of Germany give something more than a speculative or historical interest to the character and aims of the late Emperor Frederick . Internal ...
... German master of fiction raises in his present volume . Recent changes in the domestic policy of Germany give something more than a speculative or historical interest to the character and aims of the late Emperor Frederick . Internal ...
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... German press , the key to the depreciatory criticism of Gustav Freytag . To any German author the subject which Freytag selected for his theme is sufficiently inspiring ; but Freytag seemed pre- eminently the man to feel the inspiration ...
... German press , the key to the depreciatory criticism of Gustav Freytag . To any German author the subject which Freytag selected for his theme is sufficiently inspiring ; but Freytag seemed pre- eminently the man to feel the inspiration ...
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... German writers . In grace and clearness of style he has no rival among his contemporaries . As novelist , poet , dramatist , and historian , his reputation is firmly established . Born at Kreuzberg in Silesia in 1816 , he is connected ...
... German writers . In grace and clearness of style he has no rival among his contemporaries . As novelist , poet , dramatist , and historian , his reputation is firmly established . Born at Kreuzberg in Silesia in 1816 , he is connected ...
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