The North British Review, Volume 42W. P. Kennedy, 1865 - English literature |
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... critics were too angry , and in too much haste to give vent to their wrath , to limit their comments to matters in which he could be thus distinctly contradicted . A good specimen of angry incoherence is furnished by Remarks on Dr ...
... critics were too angry , and in too much haste to give vent to their wrath , to limit their comments to matters in which he could be thus distinctly contradicted . A good specimen of angry incoherence is furnished by Remarks on Dr ...
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... critics call a lemma , being a clumsy contrivance by which the title of the epigram furnishes a part of the explanation which the epigram itself should give . Kleist's title is thus given in German : - " An zwei sehr schöne , aber ...
... critics call a lemma , being a clumsy contrivance by which the title of the epigram furnishes a part of the explanation which the epigram itself should give . Kleist's title is thus given in German : - " An zwei sehr schöne , aber ...
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... criticism is perhaps too indiscriminate . There are some excel- lent epigrams in several of the Italian and other Continental Latinists who are not Germans ; and although the German mind is not peculiarly epigrammatic , we are disposed ...
... criticism is perhaps too indiscriminate . There are some excel- lent epigrams in several of the Italian and other Continental Latinists who are not Germans ; and although the German mind is not peculiarly epigrammatic , we are disposed ...
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... critic line , True lineal child of Bentley , Brunck , and Porson , Forgive my sending you this Valentine— It is but coupling Valentine with Orson . " A GREEK IDEA EXPANDED . " Of Graces four , of Muses ten , Of Venuses now two are seen ...
... critic line , True lineal child of Bentley , Brunck , and Porson , Forgive my sending you this Valentine— It is but coupling Valentine with Orson . " A GREEK IDEA EXPANDED . " Of Graces four , of Muses ten , Of Venuses now two are seen ...
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... critics . Like these the great statistical work of Don Pascual Madoz , has found its way into good English libraries . Amador de los Rios is retrac- ing in fuller detail the ground already so well traversed by Ticknor . Beginning ...
... critics . Like these the great statistical work of Don Pascual Madoz , has found its way into good English libraries . Amador de los Rios is retrac- ing in fuller detail the ground already so well traversed by Ticknor . Beginning ...
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