The Monthly ReviewHurst, Robinson, 1831 |
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... respect should still agitate his mind , we shall transfer the merit of removing them to Mr. Kennedy himself : and if , upon a perusal of the poem before us , a reasonable man will say , that any other poet , living or dead , ever wrote ...
... respect should still agitate his mind , we shall transfer the merit of removing them to Mr. Kennedy himself : and if , upon a perusal of the poem before us , a reasonable man will say , that any other poet , living or dead , ever wrote ...
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... respect and gratitude to the public , I think it my duty to reply . Nothing can be more cruel and unfounded than the insinuation , that I absented myself from the theatre , on Saturday last , from any other cause than real inability ...
... respect and gratitude to the public , I think it my duty to reply . Nothing can be more cruel and unfounded than the insinuation , that I absented myself from the theatre , on Saturday last , from any other cause than real inability ...
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... situated must always be subject to . Ever ready to acknow- ledge my deficiencies in every respect , I trust I may add , that I shall never be found wanting in candour and gratitude - nor forgetful Life of Mrs. Jordan . 43.
... situated must always be subject to . Ever ready to acknow- ledge my deficiencies in every respect , I trust I may add , that I shall never be found wanting in candour and gratitude - nor forgetful Life of Mrs. Jordan . 43.
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... respect the spouse of the Duke of Clarence , was calculated to create in her mind a con- viction , that as nearly all the components of the married state were to be found in the peculiar alliance which she had formed , the per- manency ...
... respect the spouse of the Duke of Clarence , was calculated to create in her mind a con- viction , that as nearly all the components of the married state were to be found in the peculiar alliance which she had formed , the per- manency ...
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... respect , the Annuals have been upon the decline , since the second or third year after their first appearance ; and although it would not be just , to say that they have , as yet , reached their lowest point of literary worthlessness ...
... respect , the Annuals have been upon the decline , since the second or third year after their first appearance ; and although it would not be just , to say that they have , as yet , reached their lowest point of literary worthlessness ...
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