North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, 12. köideJared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge Wells and Lilly, 1821 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... writer , the ringing of his own idiom in his ears . The modern writers of Latin fall into two errors , quite opposite in their nature , from this same source . On the one hand , some vernacular idioms and forms of speech will intrude ...
... writer , the ringing of his own idiom in his ears . The modern writers of Latin fall into two errors , quite opposite in their nature , from this same source . On the one hand , some vernacular idioms and forms of speech will intrude ...
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... writer is not much known in the literary world , and she published nothing in her life time but the Peruvian Letters , ' a work which we have not had the pleasure of inspecting , but which we understand , belongs to the class of ...
... writer is not much known in the literary world , and she published nothing in her life time but the Peruvian Letters , ' a work which we have not had the pleasure of inspecting , but which we understand , belongs to the class of ...
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... writer having depicted her own feelings in those of the tender and desolate Zilia , and represented her cruel and perfidious lover under the character of the false hearted Aza ; with what success we must leave it to the fair readers of ...
... writer having depicted her own feelings in those of the tender and desolate Zilia , and represented her cruel and perfidious lover under the character of the false hearted Aza ; with what success we must leave it to the fair readers of ...
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... writer , upon the character of Voltaire . This is sufficiently illustrated in what we have already said of the rapid change in the opinions which Madame de Graffigny entertains and expresses , in the course of a few letters ; and will ...
... writer , upon the character of Voltaire . This is sufficiently illustrated in what we have already said of the rapid change in the opinions which Madame de Graffigny entertains and expresses , in the course of a few letters ; and will ...
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... writers no doubt embellished the facts a little , to give effect to the picture , and make their corres- pondence interesting . No individual , without deviating from a purely literary career , ever turned his talents for writing to so ...
... writers no doubt embellished the facts a little , to give effect to the picture , and make their corres- pondence interesting . No individual , without deviating from a purely literary career , ever turned his talents for writing to so ...
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