The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volume 4A. and C. Black, 1890 - 439 pagina's |
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... doubt that Colonel Penson was a very generous uncle indeed , and re- sponded most kindly and promptly to such calls from his nephew . And he lived long enough to know that this nephew , the troublesome boy of former days , had come to ...
... doubt that Colonel Penson was a very generous uncle indeed , and re- sponded most kindly and promptly to such calls from his nephew . And he lived long enough to know that this nephew , the troublesome boy of former days , had come to ...
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... doubt ; and it has been only in the course of editing the present volume that I have ascertained the exact par- ticulars . In the year 1848 , when the Review was under the editorship of Dr. Chalmers's son - in - law , the late Rev. Dr ...
... doubt ; and it has been only in the course of editing the present volume that I have ascertained the exact par- ticulars . In the year 1848 , when the Review was under the editorship of Dr. Chalmers's son - in - law , the late Rev. Dr ...
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... doubt that he died upon the 23d of April . Secondly , because it is a reasonable presumption that no parents , living in a simple community , tenderly alive to the pieties of household duty , and in an age still clinging re- verentially ...
... doubt that he died upon the 23d of April . Secondly , because it is a reasonable presumption that no parents , living in a simple community , tenderly alive to the pieties of household duty , and in an age still clinging re- verentially ...
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... doubt , was then uttering a conscious falsehood . It happens that Lear was one of the few Shakspearian dramas which had kept the stage unaltered . But it is easy to see a mercenary motive in such an artifice as this . Mr. Nahum Tate is ...
... doubt , was then uttering a conscious falsehood . It happens that Lear was one of the few Shakspearian dramas which had kept the stage unaltered . But it is easy to see a mercenary motive in such an artifice as this . Mr. Nahum Tate is ...
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... doubt profoundly unlearned in Shakspeare's language , and thoroughly unable to do him justice ( and this we might well assume , since his great rival Pope , who had expressly studied Shakspeare , was , after all , so memorably deficient ...
... doubt profoundly unlearned in Shakspeare's language , and thoroughly unable to do him justice ( and this we might well assume , since his great rival Pope , who had expressly studied Shakspeare , was , after all , so memorably deficient ...
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