Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Two Volumes, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856 - 414 pages |
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... SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY MR . ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S POEMS SOUTHEY'S EDITION OF THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON LORD NUGENT'S MEMORIALS ...
... SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY MR . ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S POEMS SOUTHEY'S EDITION OF THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON LORD NUGENT'S MEMORIALS ...
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... Southey brings to distinction has been fatal even to go- the task two faculties which were never , vernments strong in the power of we believe , vouchsafed in measure so ... SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY . SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY.
... Southey brings to distinction has been fatal even to go- the task two faculties which were never , vernments strong in the power of we believe , vouchsafed in measure so ... SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY . SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY.
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... Southey determined by argument ; but he could will scarcely , we think , deny that his defend the wildest course by argu- success has almost always borne an ments more plausible than those by inverse proportion to the degree in which ...
... Southey determined by argument ; but he could will scarcely , we think , deny that his defend the wildest course by argu- success has almost always borne an ments more plausible than those by inverse proportion to the degree in which ...
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... Southey's poetry to his prose , we must make one exception . The Life of Nelson is , beyond all doubt , the most perfect and the most delightful The Book of the Church contains of his works . The fact is , as his poems some stories very ...
... Southey's poetry to his prose , we must make one exception . The Life of Nelson is , beyond all doubt , the most perfect and the most delightful The Book of the Church contains of his works . The fact is , as his poems some stories very ...
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... Southey's of mankind . This is the spirit of judgments of men and actions . We Thalaba , of Ladurlad , of Adosinda ... Southey appears to affect . " I do But rigour ought to be accompanied well to be angry , " seems to be the by ...
... Southey's of mankind . This is the spirit of judgments of men and actions . We Thalaba , of Ladurlad , of Adosinda ... Southey appears to affect . " I do But rigour ought to be accompanied well to be angry , " seems to be the by ...
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