Critical and Historical Essays, 2: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernh. Tauchnitz Im., 1850 - 393 pages |
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... better , the Arabian Nights best of all . Fairy palaces and gardens , porticoes of agate , and groves flowering with emeralds and rubies , inhabited by people for whom nobody cares , these are his proper domain . He would succeed ...
... better , the Arabian Nights best of all . Fairy palaces and gardens , porticoes of agate , and groves flowering with emeralds and rubies , inhabited by people for whom nobody cares , these are his proper domain . He would succeed ...
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... better suited to his own pulpit at Bedford or Reading than to the Enchanted Ground or to the Interpreter's Garden . Yet even these passages , though we will not undertake to defend them against the objections of critics , we feel that ...
... better suited to his own pulpit at Bedford or Reading than to the Enchanted Ground or to the Interpreter's Garden . Yet even these passages , though we will not undertake to defend them against the objections of critics , we feel that ...
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... better times ; and we are not afraid to say , that , though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century , there were only two minds which pos- sessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent ...
... better times ; and we are not afraid to say , that , though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century , there were only two minds which pos- sessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent ...
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... better , and that the dissolved Parliament would never have done all that was necessary . St. John , we think , was in the right . No good could then have been done by any Parliament which did not fully understand that no confidence ...
... better , and that the dissolved Parliament would never have done all that was necessary . St. John , we think , was in the right . No good could then have been done by any Parliament which did not fully understand that no confidence ...
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... , as far as it can be collected from a very obscure note of one of his speeches , seems to have been that the proceeding by Bill was unneces- sary , and that it would be a better course LORD NUGENT'S MEMORIALS OF HAMPDEN . 57.
... , as far as it can be collected from a very obscure note of one of his speeches , seems to have been that the proceeding by Bill was unneces- sary , and that it would be a better course LORD NUGENT'S MEMORIALS OF HAMPDEN . 57.
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