The Quarterly Review, Volumes 241-242William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1924 - English literature |
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... perhaps , we do not fully appreciate the common pheasant , who inclines more nearly to the original than any other , or realise what a sporting bird he is in the wild state - for pheasants may be found even in this country as wild as ...
... perhaps , we do not fully appreciate the common pheasant , who inclines more nearly to the original than any other , or realise what a sporting bird he is in the wild state - for pheasants may be found even in this country as wild as ...
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... perhaps deserved a better fate , fell to a purely random shot , fired after him through the trees in desperation as he skimmed away in a flight which would have carried him out of bounds . The pheasant is a canny bird indeed , and knows ...
... perhaps deserved a better fate , fell to a purely random shot , fired after him through the trees in desperation as he skimmed away in a flight which would have carried him out of bounds . The pheasant is a canny bird indeed , and knows ...
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... perhaps , kno much of the ' caper , ' of which Mr Thorburn gives a ver fine picture in his first plate , for it is a far cry to th Highlands where this royal grouse roams . Black gam we know better , but even these fine birds are no ...
... perhaps , kno much of the ' caper , ' of which Mr Thorburn gives a ver fine picture in his first plate , for it is a far cry to th Highlands where this royal grouse roams . Black gam we know better , but even these fine birds are no ...
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... perhaps that it hails from some lone far land , across hundreds of leagues of continent and ocean . Of the actual journey , however , we know nothing , and the more one studies the whole principle of migration the more fascinating it ...
... perhaps that it hails from some lone far land , across hundreds of leagues of continent and ocean . Of the actual journey , however , we know nothing , and the more one studies the whole principle of migration the more fascinating it ...
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... perhaps , been associated wit remarkable men or memorable events . The debt will b enhanced by the increased accuracy of modern methods Yet , personally , I should regret the complete passing o the older school of local historians who ...
... perhaps , been associated wit remarkable men or memorable events . The debt will b enhanced by the increased accuracy of modern methods Yet , personally , I should regret the complete passing o the older school of local historians who ...
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