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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... once been , or might have been , took possession of the minds of architects and their patrons , the continuity of English architecture was broken . It may seem a contradiction to speak of continuity through this period . But the ...
... once been , or might have been , took possession of the minds of architects and their patrons , the continuity of English architecture was broken . It may seem a contradiction to speak of continuity through this period . But the ...
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... once compared his critics to men who should ' go to a gin - shop for a leg of mutton ; ' and it may be feared that Eton- tradition can see little in Shelley beyond the gin - shop . At any rate there is nothing at Eton to commemorate the ...
... once compared his critics to men who should ' go to a gin - shop for a leg of mutton ; ' and it may be feared that Eton- tradition can see little in Shelley beyond the gin - shop . At any rate there is nothing at Eton to commemorate the ...
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... once saved the country from serious explosions of discontent , and when vigorous government was everywhere in the ascendant . We do not think Keate a successful disciplinarian . The story of the stone thrown at him in school shows that ...
... once saved the country from serious explosions of discontent , and when vigorous government was everywhere in the ascendant . We do not think Keate a successful disciplinarian . The story of the stone thrown at him in school shows that ...
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... once opened , it was inevitable that the new should crowd in upon the old . However lovers of leisurely scholarship may regret the decay of the old classical training , which still survives for a portion of the school , the most ...
... once opened , it was inevitable that the new should crowd in upon the old . However lovers of leisurely scholarship may regret the decay of the old classical training , which still survives for a portion of the school , the most ...
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... once places him out of sympathy with the ideas of the Crown Prince . Freytag dreaded , that the assumption of the imperial dignity would destroy the Spartan simplicity which characterized the Prussian Court , the civil service , and the ...
... once places him out of sympathy with the ideas of the Crown Prince . Freytag dreaded , that the assumption of the imperial dignity would destroy the Spartan simplicity which characterized the Prussian Court , the civil service , and the ...
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