The Quarterly Review, Том 122William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1867 |
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... We grant this truth at once in the objects of nature , and we sin against criticism if we do not recognise it in art . No man , man , if he would praise a racehorse , thinks 10 Charles Lamb and some of his Companions .
... We grant this truth at once in the objects of nature , and we sin against criticism if we do not recognise it in art . No man , man , if he would praise a racehorse , thinks 10 Charles Lamb and some of his Companions .
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... once melancholy and genial , the record of his early impressions , and makes us partners in the joys and the griefs of genius . For in essays of this kind the self - obtrusion to which we give the name of egotism is not a fault ; it is ...
... once melancholy and genial , the record of his early impressions , and makes us partners in the joys and the griefs of genius . For in essays of this kind the self - obtrusion to which we give the name of egotism is not a fault ; it is ...
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... once pure and genial ; it has no malice in its smile . His keenest sarcasm is but his archest pleasantry . is not of the very highest order , because the highest order necessitates the creation of characters self - developed in the ...
... once pure and genial ; it has no malice in its smile . His keenest sarcasm is but his archest pleasantry . is not of the very highest order , because the highest order necessitates the creation of characters self - developed in the ...
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... once made a statement before the Westminster Medical Society , that there had been an epidemic in Surat in 1760 , which carried off 60,000 people , but it does not appear on what authority this statement rests . A good deal has been ...
... once made a statement before the Westminster Medical Society , that there had been an epidemic in Surat in 1760 , which carried off 60,000 people , but it does not appear on what authority this statement rests . A good deal has been ...
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... once to be epidemic among our ancestors , we may nevertheless pass in review some of the explanations which have been attempted of the apparent_change in the disease , or fresh outbreak of it , in 1817 . It has been a favourite French ...
... once to be epidemic among our ancestors , we may nevertheless pass in review some of the explanations which have been attempted of the apparent_change in the disease , or fresh outbreak of it , in 1817 . It has been a favourite French ...
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