English Prose: Selections, 5 tomasSir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1896 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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... Adam Blair at the Tarn 324 Scott in his Study Scott's Character 326 328 SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON . J. H. Millar 331 Theology and Classical Study . 334 The Philosophy of the Unconditioned . 337 The Necessary Laws of Thought 338 HENRY HART ...
... Adam Blair at the Tarn 324 Scott in his Study Scott's Character 326 328 SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON . J. H. Millar 331 Theology and Classical Study . 334 The Philosophy of the Unconditioned . 337 The Necessary Laws of Thought 338 HENRY HART ...
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... Adam Blair , Reginald Dalton , and Matthew Wald . In the latest of these four years he also published his Spanish Ballads . In 1826 he moved to London , having been appointed editor of the Quarterly Review , a post which he held almost ...
... Adam Blair , Reginald Dalton , and Matthew Wald . In the latest of these four years he also published his Spanish Ballads . In 1826 he moved to London , having been appointed editor of the Quarterly Review , a post which he held almost ...
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... Adam Blair is almost a masterpiece in concentrated power and passion ; and though , like most novels , it lends itself ill to excerpt , the passage here quoted will show Lockhart's mastery of that perilous " grand style , " the form of ...
... Adam Blair is almost a masterpiece in concentrated power and passion ; and though , like most novels , it lends itself ill to excerpt , the passage here quoted will show Lockhart's mastery of that perilous " grand style , " the form of ...
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... ADAM BLAIR AT THE TARN THIS melancholy tarn , formed where three hills descend into the bosom of the earth together , is of such depth that no plummet could ever sound it , and it shelves from the very brink sheer ... Adam Blair at the Tarn.
... ADAM BLAIR AT THE TARN THIS melancholy tarn , formed where three hills descend into the bosom of the earth together , is of such depth that no plummet could ever sound it , and it shelves from the very brink sheer ... Adam Blair at the Tarn.
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... Adam Blair . ) SCOTT IN HIS STUDY HE at this time occupied as his den a small square room , behind the dining parlour in Castle Street . It had but a single Venetian window , opening on a patch of turf not much larger than itself , and ...
... Adam Blair . ) SCOTT IN HIS STUDY HE at this time occupied as his den a small square room , behind the dining parlour in Castle Street . It had but a single Venetian window , opening on a patch of turf not much larger than itself , and ...
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