The North British Review, Volume 42W. P. Kennedy, 1865 - English literature |
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... tion is made how two Roman legionaries , found in Spain at a distance from their post , who could give no better account of themselves than that they walked for enjoyment , were deemed to be two lunatics who had escaped from bondage ...
... tion is made how two Roman legionaries , found in Spain at a distance from their post , who could give no better account of themselves than that they walked for enjoyment , were deemed to be two lunatics who had escaped from bondage ...
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... tion even at the present day , and must have put him in the power of a multitude of contemporary readers , if he sat at home and shammed the traveller . He had not the advantage of an unpeopled island like Selkirk's Juan Fernandez . So ...
... tion even at the present day , and must have put him in the power of a multitude of contemporary readers , if he sat at home and shammed the traveller . He had not the advantage of an unpeopled island like Selkirk's Juan Fernandez . So ...
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... tion set garotting in every street , was something far inferior . To put poetical sentiment and feeling into the mouth of one of the accursed race was high irony . It was heightened by making the events of his savage criminal life the ...
... tion set garotting in every street , was something far inferior . To put poetical sentiment and feeling into the mouth of one of the accursed race was high irony . It was heightened by making the events of his savage criminal life the ...
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... tion and torment to hapless tourists , in this respect , that there are two rival competitors - quite unlike each other for the honour of being the genuine " Habbie's - How . " There is a powerful revelation of the feeling of the day in ...
... tion and torment to hapless tourists , in this respect , that there are two rival competitors - quite unlike each other for the honour of being the genuine " Habbie's - How . " There is a powerful revelation of the feeling of the day in ...
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... tion on cataracts , full of curious reading and curious plates.1 The chief Scottish falls are very accessible . Those of the Clyde in the midst of agriculture and manufactures ; the Grey Mare's Tail close to a high - road through the ...
... tion on cataracts , full of curious reading and curious plates.1 The chief Scottish falls are very accessible . Those of the Clyde in the midst of agriculture and manufactures ; the Grey Mare's Tail close to a high - road through the ...
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