Quarterly Review, Volume 82John Murray, 1848 - English literature |
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Page 9
... probably conscious of decay , he had become in all respects less ungracious and exacting to his household . But although gusts and sallies of passion were by no means uncommon with Frederick , we scarcely ever find them impel him in the ...
... probably conscious of decay , he had become in all respects less ungracious and exacting to his household . But although gusts and sallies of passion were by no means uncommon with Frederick , we scarcely ever find them impel him in the ...
Page 41
... probably as unconscious of its operation on his judgment as he is of the machinery that circulates his blood . Every reader before he has gone through half a dozen pages perceives this : it is not like a mark distin- guishable here and ...
... probably as unconscious of its operation on his judgment as he is of the machinery that circulates his blood . Every reader before he has gone through half a dozen pages perceives this : it is not like a mark distin- guishable here and ...
Page 42
... Probably other Cancellarian peerages are also in abeyance , and very many are extinct . Yet he enumerates seventeen peers , his contemporaries , who are descended in the direct male line from Chancellors of England - namely , two Mar ...
... Probably other Cancellarian peerages are also in abeyance , and very many are extinct . Yet he enumerates seventeen peers , his contemporaries , who are descended in the direct male line from Chancellors of England - namely , two Mar ...
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... ( probably Finch also * -making twenty ) had re- ceived what we call a regular gentleman's education at an English university , most of them having also been at great English schools ; one had every advantage of instruction at Edinburgh ...
... ( probably Finch also * -making twenty ) had re- ceived what we call a regular gentleman's education at an English university , most of them having also been at great English schools ; one had every advantage of instruction at Edinburgh ...
Page 49
... probably either a disaster at the gaming - table or a rebuff in love - he seems to have awakened as from a dream , rubbed his eyes , and per- ceived that the sun was high in heaven and he yet a waster of the light . At four - and ...
... probably either a disaster at the gaming - table or a rebuff in love - he seems to have awakened as from a dream , rubbed his eyes , and per- ceived that the sun was high in heaven and he yet a waster of the light . At four - and ...
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