The Quarterly Review, Volumes 241-242William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1924 - English literature |
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... easy victims , and there is an all - too - simple device for entrapping the more elusive partridge . In late GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL 11 The English Dictionary British Foreign Policy Past and Present Diplomatists and Revolution.
... easy victims , and there is an all - too - simple device for entrapping the more elusive partridge . In late GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL 11 The English Dictionary British Foreign Policy Past and Present Diplomatists and Revolution.
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... present century when , as pessimists assure us agriculture is going to the devil in a gale of wind . Som in one direction , some in another , they present impres sions of the past so vividly that the old world seems to be still kept in ...
... present century when , as pessimists assure us agriculture is going to the devil in a gale of wind . Som in one direction , some in another , they present impres sions of the past so vividly that the old world seems to be still kept in ...
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... present age ? Humorless literature may be more popular than humorous literature for the moment , and there may be no one living who has built up a fame comparable to Molière's on humour alone . But just as , a few years ago , when ...
... present age ? Humorless literature may be more popular than humorous literature for the moment , and there may be no one living who has built up a fame comparable to Molière's on humour alone . But just as , a few years ago , when ...
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... present thrones if they ha not been propagandists as well as humorists ; but i seems likely that it will be as humorists and not a propagandists that posterity will be interested in them . Mr Belloc and Mr Chesterton , again , are ...
... present thrones if they ha not been propagandists as well as humorists ; but i seems likely that it will be as humorists and not a propagandists that posterity will be interested in them . Mr Belloc and Mr Chesterton , again , are ...
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... present but t the past . The illusion of literature is never a complet illusion . Even when it transports us into another worle we know in our secret imaginations that this is a worl in which things have not quite the same significance ...
... present but t the past . The illusion of literature is never a complet illusion . Even when it transports us into another worle we know in our secret imaginations that this is a worl in which things have not quite the same significance ...
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