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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... story of the stone thrown at him in school shows that he could be merciful as well as severe ; but the offence should have been impossible . He lived in the midst of turmoil ; and whatever teaching he did was done under difficulties ...
... story of the stone thrown at him in school shows that he could be merciful as well as severe ; but the offence should have been impossible . He lived in the midst of turmoil ; and whatever teaching he did was done under difficulties ...
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... hold a contrary opinion . His own aides - de - camp tell a different story . But Vol . 171.-No. 341 . E the the whole criticism strikingly illustrates the pettiness of Freytag's estimate Gustav Freytag's Reminiscences . 49.
... hold a contrary opinion . His own aides - de - camp tell a different story . But Vol . 171.-No. 341 . E the the whole criticism strikingly illustrates the pettiness of Freytag's estimate Gustav Freytag's Reminiscences . 49.
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... story - tellers , prose- poets , or scientific novelists , appear when confronted with Sophocles , with Shakspeare , with Goethe , and the sad - browed Florentine ? It is a trial which they cannot escape , although neither the French ...
... story - tellers , prose- poets , or scientific novelists , appear when confronted with Sophocles , with Shakspeare , with Goethe , and the sad - browed Florentine ? It is a trial which they cannot escape , although neither the French ...
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... story of Rastignac , of Lucien de Rubempré , of Madame Hulot , of Pons and Schmucke , of the poor imbecile Curé de Tours . It is Vautrin's philosophy , which , to no small extent , was Balzac's own . The very defects which repel and ...
... story of Rastignac , of Lucien de Rubempré , of Madame Hulot , of Pons and Schmucke , of the poor imbecile Curé de Tours . It is Vautrin's philosophy , which , to no small extent , was Balzac's own . The very defects which repel and ...
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... stories is a mania bred of philtres and intoxicating potions . With him the spirit is but a more finely - woven flesh . The whole world is artificial like its expression , money ; or it is monstrous , un- healthy , chaotic . 6 We said ...
... stories is a mania bred of philtres and intoxicating potions . With him the spirit is but a more finely - woven flesh . The whole world is artificial like its expression , money ; or it is monstrous , un- healthy , chaotic . 6 We said ...
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