Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volúmenes1-2D. Appleton and Company, 1896 |
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... favourite gods are those of the elder generations - the sons of heaven and earth , com- pared with whom Jupiter himself was a stripling and an upstart the gigantic Titans and the inexorable Furies . Foremost among his creations of this ...
... favourite gods are those of the elder generations - the sons of heaven and earth , com- pared with whom Jupiter himself was a stripling and an upstart the gigantic Titans and the inexorable Furies . Foremost among his creations of this ...
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... the thoughts of a pander in the style of a bellman , were now the favourite writers of the sovereign and the public . It was a loathesome herd - which could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus , MILTON . 31.
... the thoughts of a pander in the style of a bellman , were now the favourite writers of the sovereign and the public . It was a loathesome herd - which could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus , MILTON . 31.
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... favourite topic of his enemies is the line of conduct which he pursued with regard to the execution of the king . Of that celebrated proceeding we by no means approve . Still we must say , in justice to the many eminent persons who ...
... favourite topic of his enemies is the line of conduct which he pursued with regard to the execution of the king . Of that celebrated proceeding we by no means approve . Still we must say , in justice to the many eminent persons who ...
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... favourite who governed the prince , and of the lacquey who governed the favourite . He was to compliment the mistress and bribe the confessor , to panegyrize or supplicate , to laugh or weep , to accommodate himself to every caprice ...
... favourite who governed the prince , and of the lacquey who governed the favourite . He was to compliment the mistress and bribe the confessor , to panegyrize or supplicate , to laugh or weep , to accommodate himself to every caprice ...
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... favourite . The English at that time considered a French- man who talked about constitutional checks and fundamental laws , as a prodigy not less astonishing than the learned pig or the musical infant . Specious but shallow , studious ...
... favourite . The English at that time considered a French- man who talked about constitutional checks and fundamental laws , as a prodigy not less astonishing than the learned pig or the musical infant . Specious but shallow , studious ...
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