The Quarterly Review, Volume 19William 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, 1818 - English literature |
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Page 127
... readers to whom Henry Fielding may be a more in- teresting personage than princes , or statesmen , or men of fashion . The following anecdote of his vie privée is more remarkable than pleasing . Rigby and Bathurst had carried a servant ...
... readers to whom Henry Fielding may be a more in- teresting personage than princes , or statesmen , or men of fashion . The following anecdote of his vie privée is more remarkable than pleasing . Rigby and Bathurst had carried a servant ...
Page 128
... reader's eyes . ( The reader will easily conceive that it is not in the letters of Horace Walpole engaged either in the whirlwind of fashionable dissipation , or in the limited and somewhat selfish enjoyment of his own trivial though ...
... reader's eyes . ( The reader will easily conceive that it is not in the letters of Horace Walpole engaged either in the whirlwind of fashionable dissipation , or in the limited and somewhat selfish enjoyment of his own trivial though ...
Page 137
... readers to bear in mind , namely , that Suvorof never could bring into the field an army of 40,000 effective men .'- p . 8 . " Sir Robert Wilson proceeds to furnish us the important intel- ligence that the Emperor Paul had laid a plan ...
... readers to bear in mind , namely , that Suvorof never could bring into the field an army of 40,000 effective men .'- p . 8 . " Sir Robert Wilson proceeds to furnish us the important intel- ligence that the Emperor Paul had laid a plan ...
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... readers will not be surprized to find the restoration of the Royal Family of France , and the other measures of the allies , exclaimed against in the wildest terms of jacobinical fury . They will not be surprized to find the honourable ...
... readers will not be surprized to find the restoration of the Royal Family of France , and the other measures of the allies , exclaimed against in the wildest terms of jacobinical fury . They will not be surprized to find the honourable ...
Page 148
... readers of Miss Baillie's admirable tragedies have all of them shuddered at the witty cruelty ' of the prelate in Ethwald , ' who by executing , every day , one out of a large number of captives , prolonged the fear and suspense of all ...
... readers of Miss Baillie's admirable tragedies have all of them shuddered at the witty cruelty ' of the prelate in Ethwald , ' who by executing , every day , one out of a large number of captives , prolonged the fear and suspense of all ...
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