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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... success . was a dangerous policy , but it had the merit of consistency . His hand was against the heathen , and theirs was turned against him ; but he indulged in no compunctions , and he was always on his guard . In course of time the ...
... success . was a dangerous policy , but it had the merit of consistency . His hand was against the heathen , and theirs was turned against him ; but he indulged in no compunctions , and he was always on his guard . In course of time the ...
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... success that the slave was at last got up , only to stagger and fall once more . A fresh beating followed , and , when the day's work was ended , a formal flogging was performed in the kitchen , until , as the servants deposed who held ...
... success that the slave was at last got up , only to stagger and fall once more . A fresh beating followed , and , when the day's work was ended , a formal flogging was performed in the kitchen , until , as the servants deposed who held ...
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... success , ' shows us , with singular clearness , Byron's lack of conviction , of reverence , of serious feeling for art . It brings out the strain of commonness which we find in the greatest of those to whom action was more than thought ...
... success , ' shows us , with singular clearness , Byron's lack of conviction , of reverence , of serious feeling for art . It brings out the strain of commonness which we find in the greatest of those to whom action was more than thought ...
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... success , ever so little , upon action , that is , upon something external , a private or a deferred triumph must mean very little . Napoleon , a prisoner at Elba without the interval between Elba and St. Helena - would that have been ...
... success , ever so little , upon action , that is , upon something external , a private or a deferred triumph must mean very little . Napoleon , a prisoner at Elba without the interval between Elba and St. Helena - would that have been ...
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... thought into irony , which is humour thinking about itself , is the world's substitute for philosophy , perhaps the only weapon that can be turned against it with success . Byron used the world's irony to condemn the Lord Byron . 43.
... thought into irony , which is humour thinking about itself , is the world's substitute for philosophy , perhaps the only weapon that can be turned against it with success . Byron used the world's irony to condemn the Lord Byron . 43.
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