The Quarterly Review, Volume 19William 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, 1819 - English literature |
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... less likely early to have become gray , grew hoary by the time he was thirty years of age , and he died at middle age of dropsy , an indisposition ( says his son ) the most unsuspected , being a person so exemplarily temperate , ' but ...
... less likely early to have become gray , grew hoary by the time he was thirty years of age , and he died at middle age of dropsy , an indisposition ( says his son ) the most unsuspected , being a person so exemplarily temperate , ' but ...
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... less notorious a person than Brad- shaw , nomen invisum , ' says Evelyn , yet the son of an excellent father , beneficed in Surrey . I ever thought my tutor had parts enough , but as his ambition made him much suspected of the col- lege ...
... less notorious a person than Brad- shaw , nomen invisum , ' says Evelyn , yet the son of an excellent father , beneficed in Surrey . I ever thought my tutor had parts enough , but as his ambition made him much suspected of the col- lege ...
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... less than an hour , though it be ten miles distant , so furiously did these foremen drive . ' The Dutch are not so cele- brated for the celerity of their motions in these days . On the way to the Hague he observed divers leprous poor ...
... less than an hour , though it be ten miles distant , so furiously did these foremen drive . ' The Dutch are not so cele- brated for the celerity of their motions in these days . On the way to the Hague he observed divers leprous poor ...
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... less obnoxious to this reproach than many other places ; and the three stinking cities of Europe are Lisbon , Edinburgh , and Geneva . 6 The garden of the Tuileries Evelyn describes as rarely con- trived for privacy , shade , or company ...
... less obnoxious to this reproach than many other places ; and the three stinking cities of Europe are Lisbon , Edinburgh , and Geneva . 6 The garden of the Tuileries Evelyn describes as rarely con- trived for privacy , shade , or company ...
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... less admire these islands if he were suddenly transported thither , but they would never produce the same effect upon one that has şeen a little of the world . ' Thus he spoke of them , thinking of the islands alone , without the ...
... less admire these islands if he were suddenly transported thither , but they would never produce the same effect upon one that has şeen a little of the world . ' Thus he spoke of them , thinking of the islands alone , without the ...
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