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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... period when he subsequently came into the lists to claim still higher honours , cased in armour , dark and mysterious ; and when he retired , amid the enthu- siasm and inquiries of the spectators , his vizor still closed , his name ...
... period when he subsequently came into the lists to claim still higher honours , cased in armour , dark and mysterious ; and when he retired , amid the enthu- siasm and inquiries of the spectators , his vizor still closed , his name ...
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... period , as King Charles the Second did his religion , from an idea that the cavalier creed was the more gentleman- like persuasion of the two . In the mean while my acquaintance with English lite- rature was gradually extending itself ...
... period , as King Charles the Second did his religion , from an idea that the cavalier creed was the more gentleman- like persuasion of the two . In the mean while my acquaintance with English lite- rature was gradually extending itself ...
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... period , also , I became ac- quainted with the works of Richardson and those of Mackenzie ( whom in later years I became entitled to call my friend ) , with Fielding , Smollett , and some others of our best novelists . To this period ...
... period , also , I became ac- quainted with the works of Richardson and those of Mackenzie ( whom in later years I became entitled to call my friend ) , with Fielding , Smollett , and some others of our best novelists . To this period ...
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... period at which he enjoyed Tasso and Ariosto . I presume he had , at least as soon as this , enabled himself to read Gil Blas in the original ; and in all probability we may refer to the same time of his life , or one not much later ...
... period at which he enjoyed Tasso and Ariosto . I presume he had , at least as soon as this , enabled himself to read Gil Blas in the original ; and in all probability we may refer to the same time of his life , or one not much later ...
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... period of his life , Scott was much enamoured of the poems of Langhorne and Mickle . ~ The Elegy of Cumnor Hall , after having dwelt on his memory for forty years , suggested the subject of one of his romances ; and his recollection of ...
... period of his life , Scott was much enamoured of the poems of Langhorne and Mickle . ~ The Elegy of Cumnor Hall , after having dwelt on his memory for forty years , suggested the subject of one of his romances ; and his recollection of ...
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