Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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Page 30
... brought the state to the very brink of ruin , have , in our times , been removed , but , though removed , have left behind them a rankling which may last for many years . It is melancholy to think with what ease Elizabeth might have ...
... brought the state to the very brink of ruin , have , in our times , been removed , but , though removed , have left behind them a rankling which may last for many years . It is melancholy to think with what ease Elizabeth might have ...
Page 32
... brought the heir of a long line of kings , in early youth the darling of his coun- trymen , to a prison and a scaffold . ever . Elizabeth , before the House of Commons could ad- dress her , took out of their mouths the words which they ...
... brought the heir of a long line of kings , in early youth the darling of his coun- trymen , to a prison and a scaffold . ever . Elizabeth , before the House of Commons could ad- dress her , took out of their mouths the words which they ...
Page 40
... brought face to face with the Spanish infantry . In the wars of the New World , where something different from ordinary strategy was re- quired in the general and something different from ordinary discipline in the soldier , where it ...
... brought face to face with the Spanish infantry . In the wars of the New World , where something different from ordinary strategy was re- quired in the general and something different from ordinary discipline in the soldier , where it ...
Page 54
... sparkling verse of Calderon , brought no solace to their unfortu- nate master . Having tried medicine , exercise , and amusement in vain , he returned to Madrid to die . He was now beset on every side by the bold 54 LORD MAHON'S WAR OF.
... sparkling verse of Calderon , brought no solace to their unfortu- nate master . Having tried medicine , exercise , and amusement in vain , he returned to Madrid to die . He was now beset on every side by the bold 54 LORD MAHON'S WAR OF.
Page 56
... brought to the bed of the trembling penitent . He was dying in the com- mission of known sin . He was defrauding his relatives . He was bequeathing civil war to his people . He yielded , and signed that memorable Testament , the cause ...
... brought to the bed of the trembling penitent . He was dying in the com- mission of known sin . He was defrauding his relatives . He was bequeathing civil war to his people . He yielded , and signed that memorable Testament , the cause ...
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