Miscellaneous Essays, and The Lays of Ancient RomeDent, 1915 - 528 pages |
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... POETRY & DRAMA BIOGRAPHY REFERENCE ROMANCE IN FOUR STYLES OF BINDING : CLOTH , FLAT BACK , COLOURED TOP ; LEATHER , ROUND CORNERS , GILT TOP ; LIBRARY BINDING IN CLOTH , & QUARTER PIGSKIN LONDON : J. M. DENT & SONS , LTD . NEW YORK ...
... POETRY & DRAMA BIOGRAPHY REFERENCE ROMANCE IN FOUR STYLES OF BINDING : CLOTH , FLAT BACK , COLOURED TOP ; LEATHER , ROUND CORNERS , GILT TOP ; LIBRARY BINDING IN CLOTH , & QUARTER PIGSKIN LONDON : J. M. DENT & SONS , LTD . NEW YORK ...
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... poetry . The language lost something of that infantine sweetness which had characterised it . It became less like the ancient Tuscan , and more like the modern French . The fashionable logic of the Greeks was , indeed , far from strict ...
... poetry . The language lost something of that infantine sweetness which had characterised it . It became less like the ancient Tuscan , and more like the modern French . The fashionable logic of the Greeks was , indeed , far from strict ...
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... poetry and eloquence . He was a critic , and , after the manner of his age , an able critic . He studied the ... poetry , and , indeed , all of poetry that can be imported . From Greece they borrowed the principles and the vocabulary of ...
... poetry and eloquence . He was a critic , and , after the manner of his age , an able critic . He studied the ... poetry , and , indeed , all of poetry that can be imported . From Greece they borrowed the principles and the vocabulary of ...
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... poetry , what curious history , what striking and peculiar views of the Divine nature and of the social duties of men , are to be found in the Jewish scriptures , when we consider that two sects on which the attention of the government ...
... poetry , what curious history , what striking and peculiar views of the Divine nature and of the social duties of men , are to be found in the Jewish scriptures , when we consider that two sects on which the attention of the government ...
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... certain that no important consideration will altogether escape notice . This is at present the state of history . The poet laureate appears for the Church of England , Lingard for the 32 Macaulay's Miscellaneous Essays.
... certain that no important consideration will altogether escape notice . This is at present the state of history . The poet laureate appears for the Church of England , Lingard for the 32 Macaulay's Miscellaneous Essays.
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