Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Page 26
... favourite gods are those of the elder generation , the sons of heaven and earth , compared 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 generation , the sons of heaven and earth , compared with whom Jupiter himself was a stripling and an upstart , the gigantic Titans , and the inexorable Furies . Foremost among his creations of this ...
Page 28
... favourite writers of the Sovereign and of the public . It was a loathsome herd , which could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus , grotesque monsters , half bestial half human , dropping with wine , bloated with ...
... favourite writers of the Sovereign and of the public . It was a loathsome herd , which could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus , grotesque monsters , half bestial half human , dropping with wine , bloated with ...
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... favourite topic of his enemies is the line of conduct which he pursued with regard to the execu- tion 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 execu- tion of the King . Of that celebrated proceeding we by no means approve . Still we must say , in justice to the many eminent persons who ...
Page 93
... 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 him- self 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 him- self to every caprice ...
Page 105
... favourite . The English , at that time , con- sidered a Frenchman 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 , con- sidered a Frenchman 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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