The Quarterly Review, Volume 19William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1818 - English literature |
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... traveller can again speak of the delicious shades and stately trees of Ant- werp ! Caruot , in preparing to defend the place , laid what were then its beautiful environs as bare as a desert . The remark which he makes upon the view from ...
... traveller can again speak of the delicious shades and stately trees of Ant- werp ! Caruot , in preparing to defend the place , laid what were then its beautiful environs as bare as a desert . The remark which he makes upon the view from ...
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... traveller not to go on purpose to the Borromean islands unless he had a great deal of leisure : for he says , there is nothing very rare or extraordinary in them . A man who who never saw but very ordinary things of that nature 10 ...
... traveller not to go on purpose to the Borromean islands unless he had a great deal of leisure : for he says , there is nothing very rare or extraordinary in them . A man who who never saw but very ordinary things of that nature 10 ...
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... travellers in so inhospitable a place . As we ascended we entered a very thick , solid , and dark body of clowds , wch look'd like rocks at a little distance , which lasted neare a mile in going up ; they were dry misty vapours ...
... travellers in so inhospitable a place . As we ascended we entered a very thick , solid , and dark body of clowds , wch look'd like rocks at a little distance , which lasted neare a mile in going up ; they were dry misty vapours ...
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... traveller must sometimes have experienced , in an hour of exhaustion , when he feels the want of that comfort and that perfect rest , one of which can only be enjoyed in his own country , and the other in his own house . But the ...
... traveller must sometimes have experienced , in an hour of exhaustion , when he feels the want of that comfort and that perfect rest , one of which can only be enjoyed in his own country , and the other in his own house . But the ...
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... traveller can ever have beheld it without astonishment . Evelyn had seen it in both places , and yet repeats the common story , which had it been fact instead of fable , would have been less remarkable than the actual and as yet ...
... traveller can ever have beheld it without astonishment . Evelyn had seen it in both places , and yet repeats the common story , which had it been fact instead of fable , would have been less remarkable than the actual and as yet ...
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