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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... This I am con- fident of , ' he says , ' that the nastiest lane in London is frankincense and juniper to the sweetest street in this city . The ancient by - word 6 C was ( and there is good reason for it ) Evelyn's Memoirs .
... This I am con- fident of , ' he says , ' that the nastiest lane in London is frankincense and juniper to the sweetest street in this city . The ancient by - word 6 C was ( and there is good reason for it ) Evelyn's Memoirs .
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... reason for it ) Il destaint comme la fange de Paris : had I the power of making proverbs I would only change il destaint into il puit , and make the by - word ten times more or- thodox . The fortifications of this town are but trifles ...
... reason for it ) Il destaint comme la fange de Paris : had I the power of making proverbs I would only change il destaint into il puit , and make the by - word ten times more or- thodox . The fortifications of this town are but trifles ...
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... reason , that when those romances were written all highborn persons were of unmixed Teutonic blood . The pre- dilection which the southern poets of the seventeenth century show for the same colours must by explained by this fashion of ...
... reason , that when those romances were written all highborn persons were of unmixed Teutonic blood . The pre- dilection which the southern poets of the seventeenth century show for the same colours must by explained by this fashion of ...
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... reason to believe that the Rhenish wines have improved or the Canarian ones degenerated during the last century , and the inhabitants of the Rhingau might then as now boast with truth in the words of their favourite song , over the ...
... reason to believe that the Rhenish wines have improved or the Canarian ones degenerated during the last century , and the inhabitants of the Rhingau might then as now boast with truth in the words of their favourite song , over the ...
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... reason I had to be affraid of my Felicity , and how greately it did import me to do all that I could to prevent what I have apprehended , what I de- served , and what now I feele . God has taken from us that deare Childe , y Grandson ...
... reason I had to be affraid of my Felicity , and how greately it did import me to do all that I could to prevent what I have apprehended , what I de- served , and what now I feele . God has taken from us that deare Childe , y Grandson ...
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