National Review, Volume 3Robert Theobold, 1856 |
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... living as with two . Had Walcot first been pensioned by the throne , Kings would have suffered by his praise alone ; And Paine , perhaps , for something snug per ann . , Had laughed , like Wellesley , at all Rights of Man . " These ...
... living as with two . Had Walcot first been pensioned by the throne , Kings would have suffered by his praise alone ; And Paine , perhaps , for something snug per ann . , Had laughed , like Wellesley , at all Rights of Man . " These ...
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... often very much out of place . His was a mind formed to deal with facts not connected by princi- ples , but by the motives and characters of living men ; and few writers could be better adapted for an historian of that Thomas Moore . 29.
... often very much out of place . His was a mind formed to deal with facts not connected by princi- ples , but by the motives and characters of living men ; and few writers could be better adapted for an historian of that Thomas Moore . 29.
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... living . The least interesting and most wearisome reading of all forms of narrative is that which is at once minute and naked , which tells you every incident without any of that fulness of surrounding circumstance which alone can give ...
... living . The least interesting and most wearisome reading of all forms of narrative is that which is at once minute and naked , which tells you every incident without any of that fulness of surrounding circumstance which alone can give ...
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... living fa- miliarly with some of the chief actors could not help doing , but he did not venture into the arena . He seems , indeed , at one time , to have had thoughts of taking an active part in the Irish ques- tions of the day ; but ...
... living fa- miliarly with some of the chief actors could not help doing , but he did not venture into the arena . He seems , indeed , at one time , to have had thoughts of taking an active part in the Irish ques- tions of the day ; but ...
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... living , and when a man might have held such an opinion without any serious impugnment of his judgment or taste . Wordsworth , Coleridge , and Shelley , even Crabbe , were introducing features so new into the poetry of their time , that ...
... living , and when a man might have held such an opinion without any serious impugnment of his judgment or taste . Wordsworth , Coleridge , and Shelley , even Crabbe , were introducing features so new into the poetry of their time , that ...
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