Quarterly Review, Volumes 106-107J. Murray., 1859 |
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Page 60
... success , and , what is more , that it had practical effects on biography . The dearth of incidents ' was supposed to be the fatal element in the history of the class , and had become a ' trite ' re- mark among biographers when Mason un ...
... success , and , what is more , that it had practical effects on biography . The dearth of incidents ' was supposed to be the fatal element in the history of the class , and had become a ' trite ' re- mark among biographers when Mason un ...
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... success of his Dictionary , in an age when folios were more cheerfully received than at present , induced the pro ... successful friends . Nobody can deny the wit , the vivacity , the literature of Bayle . He was , perhaps , a typical ...
... success of his Dictionary , in an age when folios were more cheerfully received than at present , induced the pro ... successful friends . Nobody can deny the wit , the vivacity , the literature of Bayle . He was , perhaps , a typical ...
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... success was by no means so disproportionate as some may fancy to his wonderful endowments . Smollett's career was essentially literary , but full of adven- ture ; a career of controversy varied by imprisonment , and involving a curious ...
... success was by no means so disproportionate as some may fancy to his wonderful endowments . Smollett's career was essentially literary , but full of adven- ture ; a career of controversy varied by imprisonment , and involving a curious ...
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... success is achieved than in like other specimens of the genus homo , other cases . Bad as our literary biogra- with a little more faculty , the exertion of phy is , and obsolete as most of it has be- which is not so public in its mode ...
... success is achieved than in like other specimens of the genus homo , other cases . Bad as our literary biogra- with a little more faculty , the exertion of phy is , and obsolete as most of it has be- which is not so public in its mode ...
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... success of his book gradually familiarised the world with the spectacle of a life singularly devoid of ad- ventures and incident , but more fascinating than most of those which have been full of both . The world came to know the Doctor ...
... success of his book gradually familiarised the world with the spectacle of a life singularly devoid of ad- ventures and incident , but more fascinating than most of those which have been full of both . The world came to know the Doctor ...
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