Literary Studies: Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or, Pure, ornate, and grotesque art in English poetry (1864) Appendix: The ignorance of man (1862) On the emotion of conviction (1871) The metaphysical basis of toleration (1874) The Public worship regulation bill (1874)Longmans, Green, and Company, 1879 |
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