Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... once besieged their sove- reign in his own palace , and extorted from him the most humiliating concessions . The sultans have often been com- pelled to propitiate the furious rabble of Constantinople with the head of an unpopular vizier ...
... once besieged their sove- reign in his own palace , and extorted from him the most humiliating concessions . The sultans have often been com- pelled to propitiate the furious rabble of Constantinople with the head of an unpopular vizier ...
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... once more . Their com- mon profession was a bond of union not to be forgotten , even when they were engaged in the service of contending parties . Hence it was that operations , languid and inde- cisive beyond any recorded in history ...
... once more . Their com- mon profession was a bond of union not to be forgotten , even when they were engaged in the service of contending parties . Hence it was that operations , languid and inde- cisive beyond any recorded in history ...
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... once enterprising and apprehensive ; men equally skilled in detecting the purpose of others , and in concealing their own ; men who must have been formidable enemies and unsafe allies ; but men , at the same time , whose tempers were ...
... once enterprising and apprehensive ; men equally skilled in detecting the purpose of others , and in concealing their own ; men who must have been formidable enemies and unsafe allies ; but men , at the same time , whose tempers were ...
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... once mean and extravagant when misemployed by an imitator . The moral poems are in every point superior . That on Fortune , in particular , and that on Opportunity , ex- hibit both justness of thought and fertility of fancy . The Golden ...
... once mean and extravagant when misemployed by an imitator . The moral poems are in every point superior . That on Fortune , in particular , and that on Opportunity , ex- hibit both justness of thought and fertility of fancy . The Golden ...
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... once trite and affected - threadbare tinsel from the Ragfairs and Mon- mouth - streets of literature . A foolish school - boy might perhaps write it , and , after he had written it , think it much finer than the incomparable ...
... once trite and affected - threadbare tinsel from the Ragfairs and Mon- mouth - streets of literature . A foolish school - boy might perhaps write it , and , after he had written it , think it much finer than the incomparable ...
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