The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 164A. Dodd and A. Smith, 1838 The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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... English lite- rature was gradually extending itself ; in the intervals of my school hours I had always perused with avidity such books of history , or poetry , or voyages and travels , as chance presented to me , not forgetting the ...
... English lite- rature was gradually extending itself ; in the intervals of my school hours I had always perused with avidity such books of history , or poetry , or voyages and travels , as chance presented to me , not forgetting the ...
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... English at all , he made some efforts to amuse them in their own language after the champagne had been passing briskly round the table , and I was amused next morning with the expression of one of the party , who , alluding to the sort ...
... English at all , he made some efforts to amuse them in their own language after the champagne had been passing briskly round the table , and I was amused next morning with the expression of one of the party , who , alluding to the sort ...
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... attached much less importance to his literary labours or reputation , than to his bodily sports , exercises , and social amusements . Warton as the oldest specimen of English verse ; a 1838. ] 11 Lockhart's Life of Scott .
... attached much less importance to his literary labours or reputation , than to his bodily sports , exercises , and social amusements . Warton as the oldest specimen of English verse ; a 1838. ] 11 Lockhart's Life of Scott .
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Warton as the oldest specimen of English verse ; a translation by a gen- tleman of Devonshire of the deathsong of Reguer Lodbrog ; and the beau- tiful quatrain omitted in Gray's Elegy- " There seated oft , the earliest of the year ...
Warton as the oldest specimen of English verse ; a translation by a gen- tleman of Devonshire of the deathsong of Reguer Lodbrog ; and the beau- tiful quatrain omitted in Gray's Elegy- " There seated oft , the earliest of the year ...
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... English Crown when Edw . I. took the town in 1296 . That monarch gave the tenement to Henry de Deen , who was amoved by Robert de Brus when he got possession of the town , and he gave it to John de London , who conveyed it to Stephen ...
... English Crown when Edw . I. took the town in 1296 . That monarch gave the tenement to Henry de Deen , who was amoved by Robert de Brus when he got possession of the town , and he gave it to John de London , who conveyed it to Stephen ...
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