The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19Theodore Foster, 1819 |
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... believe they are rather in a wood than in a prison , the very cage hath put even the wood itself in prison . ' It is about an hundred paces long , and fetcheth in a world of laurel and other trees . ' This was indeed a splendid aviary ...
... believe they are rather in a wood than in a prison , the very cage hath put even the wood itself in prison . ' It is about an hundred paces long , and fetcheth in a world of laurel and other trees . ' This was indeed a splendid aviary ...
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... believe and propagate , this should appear the most impossible to obtain credit , for the Rhone , when it enters the lake , is both of the colour and consistency of pease - soup , and it issues out of it per- fectly clear , and of so ...
... believe and propagate , this should appear the most impossible to obtain credit , for the Rhone , when it enters the lake , is both of the colour and consistency of pease - soup , and it issues out of it per- fectly clear , and of so ...
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... believe , ' he says , ⚫ that the austere Rhenish , abounding on the fertile banks of the Rhine , should produce so soft and charming a liquor as does the same vine , planted among the rocks and pumices of the remote and mountainous ...
... believe , ' he says , ⚫ that the austere Rhenish , abounding on the fertile banks of the Rhine , should produce so soft and charming a liquor as does the same vine , planted among the rocks and pumices of the remote and mountainous ...
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... believe or imagine . And when Sir Richard Browne had promised him a supply , he says , for your new noble offer I am not in a condition so plentiful to refuse it , for I must tell you that I have not had a Lewes of my own these three ...
... believe or imagine . And when Sir Richard Browne had promised him a supply , he says , for your new noble offer I am not in a condition so plentiful to refuse it , for I must tell you that I have not had a Lewes of my own these three ...
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... believe , will peruse without tears the pages in which he records her death , and his own resignation under this great afflic- tion . Within two months he lost another daughter , soon after her marriage , by the same frightful disease ...
... believe , will peruse without tears the pages in which he records her death , and his own resignation under this great afflic- tion . Within two months he lost another daughter , soon after her marriage , by the same frightful disease ...
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Page 267 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled : at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.