Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... probably written by Ralph his secretary . ' A more absurd note 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 ...
... probably written by Ralph his secretary . ' A more absurd note 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 ...
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... probably alludes to the tenderness with which Gibbon's malevolence to Christianity induced him to treat Mahommedanism in his history . ' Now the sarcasm was uttered in 1776 ; and that part of the History of the Decline and Fall of the ...
... probably alludes to the tenderness with which Gibbon's malevolence to Christianity induced him to treat Mahommedanism in his history . ' Now the sarcasm was uttered in 1776 ; and that part of the History of the Decline and Fall of the ...
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... probably after one of her Thursday dinners in 1764 that the celebrated scene of the landlady , the sheriff's officer , and the bottle of Madeira , took place.2 The very page which contains this monstrous The apostasy of a gentleman ...
... probably after one of her Thursday dinners in 1764 that the celebrated scene of the landlady , the sheriff's officer , and the bottle of Madeira , took place.2 The very page which contains this monstrous The apostasy of a gentleman ...
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... probably said — some passages of them — for there are none of Juvenal's satires to which the same objection may be made as to one of Horace's , that it is altogether gross and licentious . ' 1 Surely Mr. Croker can never have read the ...
... probably said — some passages of them — for there are none of Juvenal's satires to which the same objection may be made as to one of Horace's , that it is altogether gross and licentious . ' 1 Surely Mr. Croker can never have read the ...
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... 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 beauty of Diana is extolled by all the most orthodox doctors of the ancient ...
... 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 beauty of Diana is extolled by all the most orthodox doctors of the ancient ...
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