Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 96
... English subject could enjoy ; but the whole course of his life was changed by the revolution which overthrew his infatuated father . Berwick became an exile , a man without a country ; and from that time forward his camp was to him in ...
... English subject could enjoy ; but the whole course of his life was changed by the revolution which overthrew his infatuated father . Berwick became an exile , a man without a country ; and from that time forward his camp was to him in ...
Page 229
... English Jews , we are told , are not Englishmen . They are a separate people , living locally in this island , but living morally and politically in communion with their brethren who are scattered over all the world . An English Jew ...
... English Jews , we are told , are not Englishmen . They are a separate people , living locally in this island , but living morally and politically in communion with their brethren who are scattered over all the world . An English Jew ...
Page 466
... English and of English literature he knew nothing . He had hardly heard the name of Dryden . Some of our countrymen , in the warmth of their patriotism , have asserted that this ignorance must have been affected . We own that we see no ...
... English and of English literature he knew nothing . He had hardly heard the name of Dryden . Some of our countrymen , in the warmth of their patriotism , have asserted that this ignorance must have been affected . We own that we see no ...
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