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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... CROKER , LL.D. F.R.S. Five volumes 8vo . London : 1831 . THIS work has greatly disappointed us . Whatever faults we may have been prepared to find in it , we fully expected that it would be a valuable addition to English literature ...
... CROKER , LL.D. F.R.S. Five volumes 8vo . London : 1831 . THIS work has greatly disappointed us . Whatever faults we may have been prepared to find in it , we fully expected that it would be a valuable addition to English literature ...
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... Croker informs us , that Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo , the author of the Life of Beattie , died in 1816.tt A Sir Wil- liam Forbes undoubtedly died in that year , but not the Sir William ... Croker says , that at 342 CROKER'S EDITION OF.
... Croker informs us , that Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo , the author of the Life of Beattie , died in 1816.tt A Sir Wil- liam Forbes undoubtedly died in that year , but not the Sir William ... Croker says , that at 342 CROKER'S EDITION OF.
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... Croker therefore gives us three different statements as to her age . Two of the three must be incorrect . We will not decide between them ; we will only say , that the reasons which Mr. Croker gives for thinking that Mrs. Thrale was ...
... Croker therefore gives us three different statements as to her age . Two of the three must be incorrect . We will not decide between them ; we will only say , that the reasons which Mr. Croker gives for thinking that Mrs. Thrale was ...
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... Croker had taken the trouble to read with attention that very passage in Park's Royal and Noble Authors which he ... Croker may find it in the Magasin des Enfans , the first French book which the little girls of England read to their ...
... Croker had taken the trouble to read with attention that very passage in Park's Royal and Noble Authors which he ... Croker may find it in the Magasin des Enfans , the first French book which the little girls of England read to their ...
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