The Quarterly Review, Volume 49William 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, 1833 - English literature |
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... soon soared beyond drilling the accidence into the little boys of St. Alban's : -he chose , if the more precarious , the more pleasant and lucrative employment of ministering to the delight and sharing in the favour of a splendid court ...
... soon soared beyond drilling the accidence into the little boys of St. Alban's : -he chose , if the more precarious , the more pleasant and lucrative employment of ministering to the delight and sharing in the favour of a splendid court ...
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... soon came to an end . Those days of fiercer excitement were at hand , -the spirit of Prynne was in the ascendant , and in 1642 , the first ordinance for the suppression of stage - plays was issued by the parliament . This ordinance ...
... soon came to an end . Those days of fiercer excitement were at hand , -the spirit of Prynne was in the ascendant , and in 1642 , the first ordinance for the suppression of stage - plays was issued by the parliament . This ordinance ...
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... soon be guilty of my death , As make thee miserable by expecting me . Farewell ! and do not wrong my soul , to think That any storm could separate us two , But that I have no fortune now to serve thee . Fel . This will be no exception ...
... soon be guilty of my death , As make thee miserable by expecting me . Farewell ! and do not wrong my soul , to think That any storm could separate us two , But that I have no fortune now to serve thee . Fel . This will be no exception ...
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... soon and so opportunely employed in murdering the victims and making away with the corpses . M. Le Vasseur , without enlightening us on this head , proceeds to give a somewhat vague genealogy or affiliation of these mas- sacres , from ...
... soon and so opportunely employed in murdering the victims and making away with the corpses . M. Le Vasseur , without enlightening us on this head , proceeds to give a somewhat vague genealogy or affiliation of these mas- sacres , from ...
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... soon melted away ; and when this worthy person had perished , with the word guillotine ' on his lips , and had been buried within the sacred precincts of the Cor- deliers , and while the flowers , scattered by a grateful populace , were ...
... soon melted away ; and when this worthy person had perished , with the word guillotine ' on his lips , and had been buried within the sacred precincts of the Cor- deliers , and while the flowers , scattered by a grateful populace , were ...
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Page 11 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things : There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.