Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... subjects at Bath , that his opposition might be fatal to Sheridan's lectures on oratory.2 And all this is in 1763. The fact is , that Derrick died in 1769 . In one note we read , that Sir Herbert Croft , the author of that pompous and ...
... subjects at Bath , that his opposition might be fatal to Sheridan's lectures on oratory.2 And all this is in 1763. The fact is , that Derrick died in 1769 . In one note we read , that Sir Herbert Croft , the author of that pompous and ...
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... subject of conversation in the common room of Magdalene . His whim about Arabic learning would naturally be mentioned . and would give occasion to some jokes about the probability of his turning Mussulman . If such jokes were made ...
... subject of conversation in the common room of Magdalene . His whim about Arabic learning would naturally be mentioned . and would give occasion to some jokes about the probability of his turning Mussulman . If such jokes were made ...
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... 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 . ยท The editor's want of perspicacity is indeed very amusing . He is perpetually ...
... 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 . ยท The editor's want of perspicacity is indeed very amusing . He is perpetually ...
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... subject , an allusion so faint that , till Mr. Croker's note pointed it out to us , we had never noticed it , and of which we are quite sure that the s ii . 461 . 1 Vol . iv . 377 . 2 iv . 415 . to an omitted . meaning would never be ...
... subject , an allusion so faint that , till Mr. Croker's note pointed it out to us , we had never noticed it , and of which we are quite sure that the s ii . 461 . 1 Vol . iv . 377 . 2 iv . 415 . to an omitted . meaning would never be ...
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... subject , expressed in the broadest language , almost the only passage , as far as we remember , in all Boswell's book , which we should have been inclined to leave out , is suffered to remain . We complain , however , much more of the ...
... subject , expressed in the broadest language , almost the only passage , as far as we remember , in all Boswell's book , which we should have been inclined to leave out , is suffered to remain . We complain , however , much more of the ...
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