American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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... successful exercise of which great mental discipline is a pre - requisite ? ) which leaves it lower in the scale of occupation than it ought to be . Our newspapers , for the most part , cannot be advantageously compared with those of ...
... successful exercise of which great mental discipline is a pre - requisite ? ) which leaves it lower in the scale of occupation than it ought to be . Our newspapers , for the most part , cannot be advantageously compared with those of ...
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... successful version of Huon of Bourdeaux , so advan- tageously known to us through Mr. Sotheby's translation , shows how readily the public mind has , within a few years , yielded to those old and familiar influences , thitherto kept ...
... successful version of Huon of Bourdeaux , so advan- tageously known to us through Mr. Sotheby's translation , shows how readily the public mind has , within a few years , yielded to those old and familiar influences , thitherto kept ...
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... success , in the eyes of the many , has justified means . Public virtue has found a strong and vigilant enemy in private interest , and innocence has proved no match for calumny . We have discovered , moreover , that however difficult ...
... success , in the eyes of the many , has justified means . Public virtue has found a strong and vigilant enemy in private interest , and innocence has proved no match for calumny . We have discovered , moreover , that however difficult ...
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... success . The triumph was signal , and the demonstrations of joy in consequence , lawless . The perse- cutions to which Beranger was subjected from the government , in consequence of his reckless effusions , setting at defiance po ...
... success . The triumph was signal , and the demonstrations of joy in consequence , lawless . The perse- cutions to which Beranger was subjected from the government , in consequence of his reckless effusions , setting at defiance po ...
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... successful , betrays an earnest desire of excellence ; but the consummation of art , the concealment of art , not being always attained , we are sometimes more disposed to applaud the design than to commend its execution . Whilst he ...
... successful , betrays an earnest desire of excellence ; but the consummation of art , the concealment of art , not being always attained , we are sometimes more disposed to applaud the design than to commend its execution . Whilst he ...
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