Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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... passed ; and this interval had been crowded , not only with political , but also with intellectual revolutions . Thousands of reputations had , during that period , sprung up , bloomed , withered , and disappeared . New kinds of ...
... passed ; and this interval had been crowded , not only with political , but also with intellectual revolutions . Thousands of reputations had , during that period , sprung up , bloomed , withered , and disappeared . New kinds of ...
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... passed . Her nearest relations were aware that she had good sense , but seem not to have suspected that , under her demure and bashful deport- ment , were concealed a fertile invention and a keen sense of the ridiculous . She had not ...
... passed . Her nearest relations were aware that she had good sense , but seem not to have suspected that , under her demure and bashful deport- ment , were concealed a fertile invention and a keen sense of the ridiculous . She had not ...
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... passed in review before her , English , French , German , Italian , lords and fiddlers , deans of cathedrals and managers of theatres , travellers leading about newly caught savages , and singing women escorted by deputy husbands . So ...
... passed in review before her , English , French , German , Italian , lords and fiddlers , deans of cathedrals and managers of theatres , travellers leading about newly caught savages , and singing women escorted by deputy husbands . So ...
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... passed , had been forgotten , or were remembered only with a tranquil regret . But Samuel Crisp was still mourning for his tragedy , like Rachel weeping for her children , and would not be comforted . " Never , " such was his language ...
... passed , had been forgotten , or were remembered only with a tranquil regret . But Samuel Crisp was still mourning for his tragedy , like Rachel weeping for her children , and would not be comforted . " Never , " such was his language ...
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... passed . We have thought it worth while to rescue from oblivion this curious fragment of literary history . It seems to us at once ludicrous , melancholy , and full of instruction . Crisp was an old and very intimate friend of the ...
... passed . We have thought it worth while to rescue from oblivion this curious fragment of literary history . It seems to us at once ludicrous , melancholy , and full of instruction . Crisp was an old and very intimate friend of the ...
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