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... writings • 215 CHAPTER XVI The exhausted volcanoes - Mr . Gladstone's failure and unpopularity -Ireland worse than before - Loss of influence in Europe- The Election of 1874 - Great Conservative majority — Disraeli again Prime Minister ...
... writings • 215 CHAPTER XVI The exhausted volcanoes - Mr . Gladstone's failure and unpopularity -Ireland worse than before - Loss of influence in Europe- The Election of 1874 - Great Conservative majority — Disraeli again Prime Minister ...
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... writing he worked indefatigably , if not with great success . He added a second part to ' Vivian Grey . ' Clever it could not help being , but it had not the flavour of the first . He wrote the ' Young Duke , ' a flashy picture of high ...
... writing he worked indefatigably , if not with great success . He added a second part to ' Vivian Grey . ' Clever it could not help being , but it had not the flavour of the first . He wrote the ' Young Duke , ' a flashy picture of high ...
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... writings of this kind . His interest in the life which he describes in his early novels was only superficial , and he could not give to others what he did not feel . In ' Ixion , ' in the ' Infernal Marriage , ' in ' Popanilla ' we have ...
... writings of this kind . His interest in the life which he describes in his early novels was only superficial , and he could not give to others what he did not feel . In ' Ixion , ' in the ' Infernal Marriage , ' in ' Popanilla ' we have ...
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... writings deserved better and fared better . ' Contarini Fleming ' and the tale of Alroy ' were well received . Milman , as was said above , compared ' Contarini ' to ' Childe Harold . ' Beckford found ' Alroy ' wildly original , full of ...
... writings deserved better and fared better . ' Contarini Fleming ' and the tale of Alroy ' were well received . Milman , as was said above , compared ' Contarini ' to ' Childe Harold . ' Beckford found ' Alroy ' wildly original , full of ...
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... Writing from Southend in 1834 , he says , ' Hunted the other day with Sir H. Smythe's hounds , and though not in pink was the best mounted man in the field , riding an Arabian mare , which I nearly killed - a run of thirty miles , and I ...
... Writing from Southend in 1834 , he says , ' Hunted the other day with Sir H. Smythe's hounds , and though not in pink was the best mounted man in the field , riding an Arabian mare , which I nearly killed - a run of thirty miles , and I ...
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