Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... able and ferocious . His palace was hell , and he the most execrable of fiends , a cross between Moloch and Puck . His son Frederic and his daughter Wilhel- mina , afterwards Margravine of Bareuth , were in an especial manner objects of ...
... able and ferocious . His palace was hell , and he the most execrable of fiends , a cross between Moloch and Puck . His son Frederic and his daughter Wilhel- mina , afterwards Margravine of Bareuth , were in an especial manner objects of ...
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... able to indulge with caution his own tastes . Partly in order to conciliate the King , and partly , no doubt , from inclination , he gave up a portion of his time to military and political business , and thus gradually acquired such an ...
... able to indulge with caution his own tastes . Partly in order to conciliate the King , and partly , no doubt , from inclination , he gave up a portion of his time to military and political business , and thus gradually acquired such an ...
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... able to read Homer and Milton or even Virgil and Tasso , his admiration of the Henriade would prove that he was utterly destitute of the power of discerning what is excellent in art . Had he been familiar with Sophocles or Shakspeare ...
... able to read Homer and Milton or even Virgil and Tasso , his admiration of the Henriade would prove that he was utterly destitute of the power of discerning what is excellent in art . Had he been familiar with Sophocles or Shakspeare ...
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... able arrangement . It was an arrangement acceptable to the great population whose happiness was chiefly concerned . It was an arrangement which made no change in the distribution of power among the states of Christendom . It was an ...
... able arrangement . It was an arrangement acceptable to the great population whose happiness was chiefly concerned . It was an arrangement which made no change in the distribution of power among the states of Christendom . It was an ...
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... able proceeding ; but would the king of Denmark be therefore justified in landing , without any new pro- vocation in Norway , and commencing military opera- tions there ? The king of Holland thinks , no doubt , that he was unjustly ...
... able proceeding ; but would the king of Denmark be therefore justified in landing , without any new pro- vocation in Norway , and commencing military opera- tions there ? The king of Holland thinks , no doubt , that he was unjustly ...
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