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Mr. Sheridan has produced a comedy which may be described as nearly the best in our language , so did he by a curious felicity of genius put forth , in his speech on the trial of Hastings , the finest specimen of English senatorial ...
Mr. Sheridan has produced a comedy which may be described as nearly the best in our language , so did he by a curious felicity of genius put forth , in his speech on the trial of Hastings , the finest specimen of English senatorial ...
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Nothing can furnish a stronger contrast than the English in general - for there are exceptions - to what they used to be . Those who now visit us , come hither from their golden islands , surfeited of the arts , and even display an ...
Nothing can furnish a stronger contrast than the English in general - for there are exceptions - to what they used to be . Those who now visit us , come hither from their golden islands , surfeited of the arts , and even display an ...
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We cannot dismiss the subject of Werther , without speaking of the form in which it is known to the English reader . We think there are two English translations . The one which we have seen , besides the omission of whole letters and ...
We cannot dismiss the subject of Werther , without speaking of the form in which it is known to the English reader . We think there are two English translations . The one which we have seen , besides the omission of whole letters and ...
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Contents
Adams President letter from | 48 |
in Rhyme | 68 |
Lines from London Morning | 76 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 4 |
| Editors | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Publisher | University of Northern Iowa, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2020 |
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