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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... never call to mind the least passion or inadvertence ; in his habits of life ascetic and sparing , and one that was never known to have been surprised by excess . ' It is possible , though Evelyn himself intimates no such suspicion ...
... never call to mind the least passion or inadvertence ; in his habits of life ascetic and sparing , and one that was never known to have been surprised by excess . ' It is possible , though Evelyn himself intimates no such suspicion ...
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... never had the opportunity to discharge his duty to his scho- lars . The pupil however found a fellow collegian named James Thicknesse , who was disposed to study with him , from whose learned and friendly conversation he received great ...
... never had the opportunity to discharge his duty to his scho- lars . The pupil however found a fellow collegian named James Thicknesse , who was disposed to study with him , from whose learned and friendly conversation he received great ...
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... never stopt his nose at any stink , as our chronicles report of him ; otherwise , in my con- science , he had never been able to keep his court there . But that which most amazed me is , that in such a perpetuated constancy of stinks ...
... never stopt his nose at any stink , as our chronicles report of him ; otherwise , in my con- science , he had never been able to keep his court there . But that which most amazed me is , that in such a perpetuated constancy of stinks ...
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... never , he says , was any artificial scene more beautiful to the eye , nor any place , for its size , so full of well - designed and stately palaces . But the sudden and devilish passion " of a sailor here gave him a fearful sample of ...
... never , he says , was any artificial scene more beautiful to the eye , nor any place , for its size , so full of well - designed and stately palaces . But the sudden and devilish passion " of a sailor here gave him a fearful sample of ...
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... to go on purpose to the Borromean islands unless he had a great deal of leisure : for he says , there is nothing very rare or extraordinary in them . A man who never saw but very ordinary things of that nature 10 Evelyn's Memoirs .
... to go on purpose to the Borromean islands unless he had a great deal of leisure : for he says , there is nothing very rare or extraordinary in them . A man who never saw but very ordinary things of that nature 10 Evelyn's Memoirs .
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