Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... never would have fallen , if he had taken the slightest pains to investigate the truth of his assertions , or if he had even been well acquainted with the book on which he undertook to comment . We will give a few instances . Mr. Croker ...
... never would have fallen , if he had taken the slightest pains to investigate the truth of his assertions , or if he had even been well acquainted with the book on which he undertook to comment . We will give a few instances . Mr. Croker ...
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... never penned . The History of Prince Titi , to which Mr. Croker refers , whether written by Prince Frederick or by Ralph , was certainly never published . If Mr. Croker had taken the trouble to read with attention that very passage in ...
... never penned . The History of Prince Titi , to which Mr. Croker refers , whether written by Prince Frederick or by Ralph , was certainly never published . If Mr. Croker had taken the trouble to read with attention that very passage in ...
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... never read that passage ; and yet we can scarcely suppose that any person who has ever perused so noble and pathetic a story can have utterly forgotten all its most striking circumstances . 6 ' Lord Townshend , ' says Mr. Croker , was ...
... never read that passage ; and yet we can scarcely suppose that any person who has ever perused so noble and pathetic a story can have utterly forgotten all its most striking circumstances . 6 ' Lord Townshend , ' says Mr. Croker , was ...
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... never have read the second and ninth satires of Juvenal . Indeed the decisions of this editor on points of classical learning , though pronounced in a very authoritative tone , are generally such that , if a school- boy under our care ...
... never have read the second and ninth satires of Juvenal . Indeed the decisions of this editor on points of classical learning , though pronounced in a very authoritative tone , are generally such that , if a school- boy under our care ...
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... never famed for her beauty . ' If Sir Robert Peel had seen this note , he probably would have again refuted Mr. Croker's criticisms by an appeal to Horace . In the secular ode , Lucina is used as one of the names of Diana , and the ...
... never famed for her beauty . ' If Sir Robert Peel had seen this note , he probably would have again refuted Mr. Croker's criticisms by an appeal to Horace . In the secular ode , Lucina is used as one of the names of Diana , and the ...
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