The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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... RACINE . GEORGE SAINTSBURY . RACKETS . H. F. WILKINSON . RADIATION . Prof. P. G. TAIT . RAILWAY . D. KINNEAR CLARK , C. E .; Prof. A. T. HADLEY ; A. M. WELLING- TON , C. E .; and S. WRIGHT DUNNING . RAJPUTANA . W. T. RONSON . RALEIGH ...
... RACINE . GEORGE SAINTSBURY . RACKETS . H. F. WILKINSON . RADIATION . Prof. P. G. TAIT . RAILWAY . D. KINNEAR CLARK , C. E .; Prof. A. T. HADLEY ; A. M. WELLING- TON , C. E .; and S. WRIGHT DUNNING . RAJPUTANA . W. T. RONSON . RALEIGH ...
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... Racine . and Corneille that she excelled , and more particularly in the impersonation of evil or malignant passion . By care- ful training her originally hard and harsh voice had become flexible and melodious , and its low and muffled ...
... Racine . and Corneille that she excelled , and more particularly in the impersonation of evil or malignant passion . By care- ful training her originally hard and harsh voice had become flexible and melodious , and its low and muffled ...
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... Racine belonged to a family of the upper bourgeoisie , which had indeed been technically ennobled some generations earlier and bore the punning arms of a rat and a swan ( rat , cygne ) . The poet himself subsequently dropped the rat ...
... Racine belonged to a family of the upper bourgeoisie , which had indeed been technically ennobled some generations earlier and bore the punning arms of a rat and a swan ( rat , cygne ) . The poet himself subsequently dropped the rat ...
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... Racine's life as well as the public , and Molière's company played it on 4th Decem- the greater part of his literary work fall within this silent ber , -Monsieur , his wife Henrietta of England , and many period . His strange behaviour ...
... Racine's life as well as the public , and Molière's company played it on 4th Decem- the greater part of his literary work fall within this silent ber , -Monsieur , his wife Henrietta of England , and many period . His strange behaviour ...
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... Racine's good angel , for no one has ventured to excuse the tone of these letters . The best excuse for them is that they represent the accumulated resentment arising from a long course of " excommunications . " | After this ...
... Racine's good angel , for no one has ventured to excuse the tone of these letters . The best excuse for them is that they represent the accumulated resentment arising from a long course of " excommunications . " | After this ...
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