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They have been well spoken of by two—Southey and Coleridge—of whose most poetical compositions respectively, "Thalaba" and the "Ancient Mariner," in some future volume we may dissert.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
But it was the Empire, not the Church, which was weak in Italy.—See also Natalis Alex, in sec. 8th dissert.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
On the old French stage, there were these two eminent characteristics of tragedy: Whatever the subject—if Œdipus, and the Plague raging—there must be a love-tale; and the most impassioned persons most continually dissert.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
I am not going to dissert on Hood's humor; I am not a fair judge.
From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray
There is a good review of the opinions of the ancients in general, and of Seneca in particular, on this subject in Justus Lipsius' Manuductio ad Stoicam Philosophiam, lib. iii. dissert.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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