The Quarterly Review, Volumen 29John Murray, 1823 |
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... truth ; ) the range of high and low water , between the highest and lowest ebbs , upwards of sixty feet . When flooded , vessels of 300 tons burden may ascend as high as Cincinnati . The larger steam - boats however , which run on the ...
... truth ; ) the range of high and low water , between the highest and lowest ebbs , upwards of sixty feet . When flooded , vessels of 300 tons burden may ascend as high as Cincinnati . The larger steam - boats however , which run on the ...
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... truth than his heroes . His Romans have less of their country stern- ness than the Romans of Corneille : but , indeed , all his person- ages are French ; and French belonging to the time and court of Louis XIV . It is in vain that he ...
... truth than his heroes . His Romans have less of their country stern- ness than the Romans of Corneille : but , indeed , all his person- ages are French ; and French belonging to the time and court of Louis XIV . It is in vain that he ...
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... truth of his portraiture , its universality would have no merit ; and only nations who are more skilled than the French in the deep mazes of the heart , can ap- preciate either . It is small praise to say that Shakspeare was the ...
... truth of his portraiture , its universality would have no merit ; and only nations who are more skilled than the French in the deep mazes of the heart , can ap- preciate either . It is small praise to say that Shakspeare was the ...
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... truth and nature . The tragedies of Lear , Othello and Macbeth have undergone a similar castigation from M. Ducis ; and , as he is a poet of merit , the deficiences which must strike an English reader should not be entirely attributed ...
... truth and nature . The tragedies of Lear , Othello and Macbeth have undergone a similar castigation from M. Ducis ; and , as he is a poet of merit , the deficiences which must strike an English reader should not be entirely attributed ...
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... truth which we have long proclaimed , —that this miracle of emperors was the offspring of circumstances , spawn of the reflux of the revolution ; that his abilities ( except perhaps in the field ) were those of a mountebank ; that he ...
... truth which we have long proclaimed , —that this miracle of emperors was the offspring of circumstances , spawn of the reflux of the revolution ; that his abilities ( except perhaps in the field ) were those of a mountebank ; that he ...
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