The Quarterly Review, Volume 1William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1809 - English literature |
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... mind , in some instances exhibiting all the force of the writer's talents , in others only valuable because they bear his signature . The avidity with which the reader ever devours this species of pub- lication , has been traced to the ...
... mind , in some instances exhibiting all the force of the writer's talents , in others only valuable because they bear his signature . The avidity with which the reader ever devours this species of pub- lication , has been traced to the ...
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... mind that his endowments are of no ordinary degree : but comparing our own impressions , after perusing it , with those we entertained when we judged of him only by the space which he fills in the eyes of his countrymen , we should deal ...
... mind that his endowments are of no ordinary degree : but comparing our own impressions , after perusing it , with those we entertained when we judged of him only by the space which he fills in the eyes of his countrymen , we should deal ...
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... mind . Hear , for in- stance , the following account which she gives of the state of her mind in a church to which she bad retired at night for shelter and safety , a passage which affords a favourable specimen of the author's talents ...
... mind . Hear , for in- stance , the following account which she gives of the state of her mind in a church to which she bad retired at night for shelter and safety , a passage which affords a favourable specimen of the author's talents ...
Contents
Affaires dEspagne Nos 1 to 5 Confédération | 1 |
Reliques of Robert Burns consisting chiefly of original | 19 |
Anecdotes of Painters who have resided or been born | 36 |
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