The Quarterly Review, Volume 34William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1826 |
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... principle : to those this article can give no interest unless perhaps a painful one , and we must even say with old Dan Chaucer , Turn o'er the leaf and chuse another tale ; For you shall find enough both great and small , Of storial ...
... principle : to those this article can give no interest unless perhaps a painful one , and we must even say with old Dan Chaucer , Turn o'er the leaf and chuse another tale ; For you shall find enough both great and small , Of storial ...
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... principles of dramatic criticism , he discarded the altera- tions which Garrick had ventured to introduce into the works of Shakspeare ; and which Mr. Boaden justly calls feeble and trashy . The following is an accurate and pleasing ...
... principles of dramatic criticism , he discarded the altera- tions which Garrick had ventured to introduce into the works of Shakspeare ; and which Mr. Boaden justly calls feeble and trashy . The following is an accurate and pleasing ...
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... principles of dramatic criticism , he discarded the altera- tions which Garrick had ventured to introduce into the works of Shakspeare ; and which Mr. Boaden justly calls feeble and trashy . The following is an accurate and pleasing ...
... principles of dramatic criticism , he discarded the altera- tions which Garrick had ventured to introduce into the works of Shakspeare ; and which Mr. Boaden justly calls feeble and trashy . The following is an accurate and pleasing ...
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... principles . We had almost said they were the schools of nature and of art- but luckily we suppressed a phrase which , like the whistle of a captain of marksmen , might have raised from thicket and ravine a swarm of controversial sharp ...
... principles . We had almost said they were the schools of nature and of art- but luckily we suppressed a phrase which , like the whistle of a captain of marksmen , might have raised from thicket and ravine a swarm of controversial sharp ...
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... principles , we ask for his creed . And if we are disposed to try the history by the severest test , we compare it with the original authorities , and we examine whether the facts which rest upon ancient evi- dence are fairly and ...
... principles , we ask for his creed . And if we are disposed to try the history by the severest test , we compare it with the original authorities , and we examine whether the facts which rest upon ancient evi- dence are fairly and ...
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