Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... MONTGOMERY'S POEMS CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS • MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON . • CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON PAGE 1 60 109 210 261 285 301 341 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW .
... MONTGOMERY'S POEMS CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS • MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON . • CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON PAGE 1 60 109 210 261 285 301 341 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW .
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... Byron were his least successful perfor- mances . They resemble those pasteboard pictures invented by the friend of children , Mr. Newbery , in which a single moveable head goes round twenty different bodies , so that the same face looks ...
... Byron were his least successful perfor- mances . They resemble those pasteboard pictures invented by the friend of children , Mr. Newbery , in which a single moveable head goes round twenty different bodies , so that the same face looks ...
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... Byron , in a passage which every body knows by heart , has said , addressing the sea , " Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow . " Mr. Robert Montgomery very coolly appropriates the image , and reproduces the stolen goods in the ...
... Byron , in a passage which every body knows by heart , has said , addressing the sea , " Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow . " Mr. Robert Montgomery very coolly appropriates the image , and reproduces the stolen goods in the ...
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... Byron . " Dropp'd " is false English . " Perish'd in the storm " means nothing at all ; and " thy look obedience " means the very reverse of what Mr. Robert Montgomery intends to say . Our poet then proceeds to demonstrate the ...
... Byron . " Dropp'd " is false English . " Perish'd in the storm " means nothing at all ; and " thy look obedience " means the very reverse of what Mr. Robert Montgomery intends to say . Our poet then proceeds to demonstrate the ...
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... Byron's poetry , and Mr. Martin's pictures . The new designs for Milton have , as was natural , particularly attracted the at- tention of a personage who occupies so conspicuous a place in them . Mr. Martin must be pleased to learn that ...
... Byron's poetry , and Mr. Martin's pictures . The new designs for Milton have , as was natural , particularly attracted the at- tention of a personage who occupies so conspicuous a place in them . Mr. Martin must be pleased to learn that ...
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