Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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... prince who refused to play with anything but kings . " " I never , " she says , " saw any one bad propensity in him ; nothing except natural frailty and ambition , inseparable perhaps from such talents and so lively an imagination ; he ...
... prince who refused to play with anything but kings . " " I never , " she says , " saw any one bad propensity in him ; nothing except natural frailty and ambition , inseparable perhaps from such talents and so lively an imagination ; he ...
Page 26
... prince . " Oh , King , " said his monitor , " this is most easy . Let the king make a decree , and seal it with his royal signet and let it be proclaimed that the king will give ten she - asses , and ten slaves , and ten changes of rai ...
... prince . " Oh , King , " said his monitor , " this is most easy . Let the king make a decree , and seal it with his royal signet and let it be proclaimed that the king will give ten she - asses , and ten slaves , and ten changes of rai ...
Page 61
... prince in the nursery tale , he sought and found the Sleeping Beauty within the recesses which had so long concealed her from mankind . The portal was indeed rusted by time ; the dust of had ac- cumulated on the hangings ; - the ...
... prince in the nursery tale , he sought and found the Sleeping Beauty within the recesses which had so long concealed her from mankind . The portal was indeed rusted by time ; the dust of had ac- cumulated on the hangings ; - the ...
Page 89
... prince of lyric writers . But by one fatal present she deprived her other gifts of half their value . He would have been a much greater poet had he been a less clever man . His ingenuity was the bane of his mind . He aban- doned the ...
... prince of lyric writers . But by one fatal present she deprived her other gifts of half their value . He would have been a much greater poet had he been a less clever man . His ingenuity was the bane of his mind . He aban- doned the ...
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... prince reversed the maxim ; he strove to make our thoughts as much slaves as ourselves . To sneer at a Romish pageant , to miscall a lord's crest , were crimes or which there was no mercy . These were all the fruits which we gathered ...
... prince reversed the maxim ; he strove to make our thoughts as much slaves as ourselves . To sneer at a Romish pageant , to miscall a lord's crest , were crimes or which there was no mercy . These were all the fruits which we gathered ...
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