Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... reasons which Mr. Croker gives for thinking that Mrs. Thrale was exactly thirty - five years old when Johnson was seventy , appear to us utterly frivolous . Again , Mr. Croker informs his readers that Lord Mansfield survived Johnson ...
... reasons which Mr. Croker gives for thinking that Mrs. Thrale was exactly thirty - five years old when Johnson was seventy , appear to us utterly frivolous . Again , Mr. Croker informs his readers that Lord Mansfield survived Johnson ...
Page 7
... reason , because he was killed by the way . Nor was it in 1329 that he set out . Robert Bruce died in 1329 , and the expedition of Douglas took place in the following year , Quand le printemps vint et la saison , ' says Froissart , in ...
... reason , because he was killed by the way . Nor was it in 1329 that he set out . Robert Bruce died in 1329 , and the expedition of Douglas took place in the following year , Quand le printemps vint et la saison , ' says Froissart , in ...
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... reasons . It was used because the subject of the poem called The Royal Progress ' was the arrival of the king , and not his accession , which took place near two months before his arrival . · The editor's want of perspicacity is indeed ...
... reasons . It was used because the subject of the poem called The Royal Progress ' was the arrival of the king , and not his accession , which took place near two months before his arrival . · The editor's want of perspicacity is indeed ...
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... reason , sir ; I am not bound to find you an under- standing . ' Everybody who knows anything of Latinity knows that , in genealogical tables , Joannes Baro de Carteret , or Vice - comes de Carteret , may be tolerated , but that in ...
... reason , sir ; I am not bound to find you an under- standing . ' Everybody who knows anything of Latinity knows that , in genealogical tables , Joannes Baro de Carteret , or Vice - comes de Carteret , may be tolerated , but that in ...
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... reason , degraded to the appendix . The editor has also taken upon himself to alter or omit passages which he considers as indecorous . This prudery is quite unintelligible to us . There is nothing immoral in Boswell's book , nothing ...
... reason , degraded to the appendix . The editor has also taken upon himself to alter or omit passages which he considers as indecorous . This prudery is quite unintelligible to us . There is nothing immoral in Boswell's book , nothing ...
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