The Quarterly Review, Volumen192William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1900 |
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... become intolerable , and if we had been able to suffer our country , which we love as ourselves , to be reduced to a state of poverty , hunger , and of wretched widows and orphans , and to become the prey to the barbarous heathens ...
... become intolerable , and if we had been able to suffer our country , which we love as ourselves , to be reduced to a state of poverty , hunger , and of wretched widows and orphans , and to become the prey to the barbarous heathens ...
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... becoming useful , the Com- missioner - General made a small grant of money from the Colonial Treasury towards the funds of the place , and added to the gift some sensible advice . ' ( Digest , ' p . 112. ) As this document , which is ...
... becoming useful , the Com- missioner - General made a small grant of money from the Colonial Treasury towards the funds of the place , and added to the gift some sensible advice . ' ( Digest , ' p . 112. ) As this document , which is ...
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... becomes romantic when he loves . Such an experience does not change his nature ; it does not give him sincerity in romance . Byron's sincerity underlies his romance , does not transmute it . This is partly because the style is the man ...
... becomes romantic when he loves . Such an experience does not change his nature ; it does not give him sincerity in romance . Byron's sincerity underlies his romance , does not transmute it . This is partly because the style is the man ...
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... become famous , ' with the careless and negligent ease of a man of quality . ' God help him ! ' he writes of a gentleman who has published a book of verses ; ' no one should be a rhymer who could be anything better . ' And again , more ...
... become famous , ' with the careless and negligent ease of a man of quality . ' God help him ! ' he writes of a gentleman who has published a book of verses ; ' no one should be a rhymer who could be anything better . ' And again , more ...
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... becomes false through over - emphasis . The closer Byron's writing seems to come to prose the nearer it really comes to poetry , because it comes nearer to humanity and to the world , his subject - matter , which appears to take him for ...
... becomes false through over - emphasis . The closer Byron's writing seems to come to prose the nearer it really comes to poetry , because it comes nearer to humanity and to the world , his subject - matter , which appears to take him for ...
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