The Quarterly Review, Volume 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1815 - English literature |
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Page 113
... French oratory , the general would every day at table treat us with a panegyric on the virtues and exploits of his master , of which the following was usually the burthen ; " Messieurs , l'Empereur est un homme sans défaut , c'est le ...
... French oratory , the general would every day at table treat us with a panegyric on the virtues and exploits of his master , of which the following was usually the burthen ; " Messieurs , l'Empereur est un homme sans défaut , c'est le ...
Page 348
... French tragedies which I had seen represented several years before , but which I had neither read nor studied ; a ... French prose , Philip II . and Polenices . He was well aware how meagre and unpleasing the French language is ...
... French tragedies which I had seen represented several years before , but which I had neither read nor studied ; a ... French prose , Philip II . and Polenices . He was well aware how meagre and unpleasing the French language is ...
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... French language could afford ; the Italian drama being the poorest in Europe - the French , in the judgment of every people except themselves , the worst . From the French , perhaps , he acquired the regularity of his plays ; but to ...
... French language could afford ; the Italian drama being the poorest in Europe - the French , in the judgment of every people except themselves , the worst . From the French , perhaps , he acquired the regularity of his plays ; but to ...
Contents
A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
The Character of Moses established for Veracity as a Historian | 96 |
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