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| | §29. Earl Stanhope. II. Historians, Biographers and Political Orators. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | He enjoyed rare opportunities, of which his readers had the full benefit, of access to unpublished sources; and although, as his Miscellanies attest, full of curiosity as to points of detail, he never lost himself in minutiae, or let slip the main threads of his narrative. |
 | | In 1870, earl Stanhope added a beginning or introduction to his History, entitled The reign of Queen Anne up to the Peace of Utrecht. |
 | | Though it served its turn, it could not but seem a meagre performance to readers whose favorites, both in historical composition and in fiction, had, with brilliant success, illustrated this particular era of English political, literary and social history. |
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