The British Critic: A New Review, Volumen21F. and C. Rivington, 1823 |
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... English Synonymes explained in Alphabetical Order .... 361 Cruise , Captain R. A. Jour- nal of a Ten Months re ... English Poor Laws , Letter on the , to the Right Hon . George Canning .... 98 English Synonymes ex plained in Alphabetical ...
... English Synonymes explained in Alphabetical Order .... 361 Cruise , Captain R. A. Jour- nal of a Ten Months re ... English Poor Laws , Letter on the , to the Right Hon . George Canning .... 98 English Synonymes ex plained in Alphabetical ...
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... English Bible distinctly ; the one skilful . in drawing conclusions , the other in drawing pancakes . You had your Lady Jane Grey with Plato on her breakfast table , or a living Sophia Western with orange marmalade of her own making ...
... English Bible distinctly ; the one skilful . in drawing conclusions , the other in drawing pancakes . You had your Lady Jane Grey with Plato on her breakfast table , or a living Sophia Western with orange marmalade of her own making ...
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... English language . Hence her style is not characteristic , her grammar not accurate , and her diction splendid rather than rich . We mean not that Mrs. Hemans is a stranger to the works of Spenser , Shakspeare , and Milton ; but she has ...
... English language . Hence her style is not characteristic , her grammar not accurate , and her diction splendid rather than rich . We mean not that Mrs. Hemans is a stranger to the works of Spenser , Shakspeare , and Milton ; but she has ...
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A New Review. English language , and can impress a just sense of its genius and idiomatic character . Such a sense is absolutely neces- sary to a writer in these times , to ... English , any more 58 The Siege of Valencia ; a Dramatic Poem .
A New Review. English language , and can impress a just sense of its genius and idiomatic character . Such a sense is absolutely neces- sary to a writer in these times , to ... English , any more 58 The Siege of Valencia ; a Dramatic Poem .
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A New Review. the newspapers are not written in English , any more than the Scotch novels , or Mr. Irving's orations . It requires a fine ear , and an exquisite apprehension of idiom not to err in inventing new compounds ; yet there is ...
A New Review. the newspapers are not written in English , any more than the Scotch novels , or Mr. Irving's orations . It requires a fine ear , and an exquisite apprehension of idiom not to err in inventing new compounds ; yet there is ...
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Página 229 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
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