The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 27John George Cochrane 1841 |
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... English tragedy . Our age has witnessed a most astonishing reaction . The northern nations have asserted their independence in letters and arts , as they had long since in religion and politics ; they have spurned the models before ...
... English tragedy . Our age has witnessed a most astonishing reaction . The northern nations have asserted their independence in letters and arts , as they had long since in religion and politics ; they have spurned the models before ...
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John George Cochrane. " Commedia Piagnolosa , " derived from the French and English novels of the worst school - the philosophical comedy " Com- media Morale , " consisting in apt illustrations of the specious theories of the ...
John George Cochrane. " Commedia Piagnolosa , " derived from the French and English novels of the worst school - the philosophical comedy " Com- media Morale , " consisting in apt illustrations of the specious theories of the ...
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... English verse , by a strange contradiction , entered , in his preface , into a long dissertation on the flagrant demerits of his original . Alfieri has scarcely an advocate beyond the Alps , and must rest satisfied with the suf- frage ...
... English verse , by a strange contradiction , entered , in his preface , into a long dissertation on the flagrant demerits of his original . Alfieri has scarcely an advocate beyond the Alps , and must rest satisfied with the suf- frage ...
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... English school , though certainly the author could find no model for his works among the classics . He does not seem to possess the wide and versatile imagination of Shak- speare , nor the warm and sympathetic heart of Schiller , though ...
... English school , though certainly the author could find no model for his works among the classics . He does not seem to possess the wide and versatile imagination of Shak- speare , nor the warm and sympathetic heart of Schiller , though ...
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John George Cochrane. great applause on the stage at Turin . On attempting an English subject of such vital importance , Pellico , as may well be ex- pected , had no greater object in view than to bring forward new arguments in favour of ...
John George Cochrane. great applause on the stage at Turin . On attempting an English subject of such vital importance , Pellico , as may well be ex- pected , had no greater object in view than to bring forward new arguments in favour of ...
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Page 195 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 411 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool : his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Page 242 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest : but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind...
Page 249 - And it shall come to pass in that day, That the remnant of Israel, And such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, Shall no more again stay upon him that smote them ; But shall stay upon the Lord, The Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, Unto the mighty God.
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