The Quarterly Review, Volume 105William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1859 - English literature |
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... Johnson : including their Tour to the Hebrides . By the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker , LL.D. , F.R.S. A new Edition , thoroughly Revised , with much additional Matter . With Por- traits . 1 vol . royal 8vo . London . 1847 VIII ...
... Johnson : including their Tour to the Hebrides . By the Right Honourable John Wilson Croker , LL.D. , F.R.S. A new Edition , thoroughly Revised , with much additional Matter . With Por- traits . 1 vol . royal 8vo . London . 1847 VIII ...
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... Johnson ' would lose incalculably by the curtailment of their discursiveness ; and in Sir Walter Scott's miscellaneous writings , the reminiscences into which he wanders , often far away from the main thread of his argument or narrative ...
... Johnson ' would lose incalculably by the curtailment of their discursiveness ; and in Sir Walter Scott's miscellaneous writings , the reminiscences into which he wanders , often far away from the main thread of his argument or narrative ...
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... Johnson , My dear Lord , clear your mind of cant ! ' Inscrutable are the operations of the mind , and boundless its powers of self - deception . Twice during his American cam- paigns , when he could ill be spared , did Lord Cornwallis ...
... Johnson , My dear Lord , clear your mind of cant ! ' Inscrutable are the operations of the mind , and boundless its powers of self - deception . Twice during his American cam- paigns , when he could ill be spared , did Lord Cornwallis ...
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... Johnson calls the most poignant of regrets , the remorse for a crime committed in vain . Amongst the worthies who took their money , to the tune of 20007 . down and as much more after the service had been performed , was ' Jerusalem ...
... Johnson calls the most poignant of regrets , the remorse for a crime committed in vain . Amongst the worthies who took their money , to the tune of 20007 . down and as much more after the service had been performed , was ' Jerusalem ...
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... Johnson , Steevens , and many more of the same corporation , there are not a few persons who begin to be confused by the long procession of suc- cessive editors , and to despair of understanding their respective claims to confidence ...
... Johnson , Steevens , and many more of the same corporation , there are not a few persons who begin to be confused by the long procession of suc- cessive editors , and to despair of understanding their respective claims to confidence ...
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