Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 112
... passed for a most liberal Par- liament in the days of Elizabeth ; and there are at present few members of the Conservative Club who would not have been fully qualified to sit with Halifax and Somers at the Kit - cat . Though , therefore ...
... passed for a most liberal Par- liament in the days of Elizabeth ; and there are at present few members of the Conservative Club who would not have been fully qualified to sit with Halifax and Somers at the Kit - cat . Though , therefore ...
Page 462
... passed for a great poet , just as in the dark ages a person who could write his name passed for a great clerk . Accordingly , Duke , Stepney , Granville , Walsh , and others whose only title to fame was that they said in tolerable metre ...
... passed for a great poet , just as in the dark ages a person who could write his name passed for a great clerk . Accordingly , Duke , Stepney , Granville , Walsh , and others whose only title to fame was that they said in tolerable metre ...
Page 569
... passed . Her nearest relations were aware that she had good sense , but seem not to have suspected that , under her demure and bashful deport- ment , were concealed a fertile invention and a keen sense of the ridiculous . She had not ...
... passed . Her nearest relations were aware that she had good sense , but seem not to have suspected that , under her demure and bashful deport- ment , were concealed a fertile invention and a keen sense of the ridiculous . She had not ...
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