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The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay - Page 117
by George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 2 pages
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 53

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1876 - 974 pages
...Robert Hall, of whom he wns an admirer, was discovered lying on the floor, employed in learning, by the aid of grammar and dictionary, enough Italian to enable...verify the parallel between Milton and Dante. But what pleased him most, and it was the only commendation of his literary talent that he was ever heard...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 143

English literature - 1877 - 630 pages
...that long disease, his life,' and, in the last precious days of it, ' discovered lying on the floor, employed in learning, by aid of grammar and dictionary, enough Italian to enable him to verify ' this ingenious criticism ! Alas ! even had his life been prolonged like Hezekiah's, he could not...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 143-144

1877 - 626 pages
...that long disease, his life,' and, in the last precious days of it, ' discovered lying on the floor, employed in learning, by aid of grammar and dictionary, enough Italian to enable him to verify ' this ingenious criticism ! Alas ! even had his life been prolonged like Hezekiah's, he could not...
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 368 pages
...that long disease, his life,' and, in the last precious days of it, ' discovered lying on the floor, employed in learning, by aid of grammar and dictionary, enough Italian to enable him to verify ' this ingenious criticism ! Alas ! even had his life been prolonged like Hezekiah's, he could not...
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1880 - 476 pages
...preacher, then wellnigh worn out with that long disease, his life, was discovered lying on the floor, employed in learning by aid of grammar and dictionary...him to verify the parallel between Milton and Dante. ,38 A FRENCH CRITIC ON MILTON. But the compliment that, of all others.came most nearly home, —the...
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1880 - 368 pages
...that long disease, his life,' and, in the last precious days of it, ' discovered lying on the floor, employed in learning, by aid of grammar and dictionary, enough Italian to enable him to verify' this ingenious criticism ! Alas ! even had his life been prolonged like Hezekiah's, he could not have...
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Mixed Essays

Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1880 - 372 pages
...that long disease, his life,' and, in the last precious days of it, ' discovered lying on the floor, employed in learning, by aid of grammar and dictionary, enough Italian to enable him to verify ' this ingenious criticism ! Alas ! even had his life been prolonged like Hezekiah's, he could not...
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Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and Others

Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1883 - 540 pages
...preacher, then well-nigh worn out with that long disease, his life, was discovered lying on the floor, employed in learning by aid of grammar and dictionary...the innermost domestic circle he was ever known to repeat,—was the sentence with which Jeffrey acknowledged the receipt of his manuscript: ' The more...
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Lays of Ancient Rome: With Ivry and The Armada

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English poetry - 1883 - 268 pages
...Robert Hall, writhing with pain, and well-nigh worn out with disease, was discovered lying on the floor employed in learning by aid of grammar and dictionary...him to verify the parallel between Milton and Dante. The family breakfast-table was covered with cards of invitation to dinner from every quarter of London....
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Characteristics: Sketches and Essays

Addison Peale Russell - English literature - 1883 - 378 pages
...preacher, " then well-nigh worn out with that long disease, his life, was discovered lying on the floor, employed in learning, by aid of grammar and dictionary,...to verify the parallel between Milton and Dante." Jeffrey, in acknowledging the receipt of the manuscript, said : " The more I think, the less I can...
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