Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... heart to break in upon the precious hoard . He looked forward to some future time when his Patagonian battalions were to drive hostile infantry before them like sheep ; but this future time was always receding ; and it is probable that ...
... heart to break in upon the precious hoard . He looked forward to some future time when his Patagonian battalions were to drive hostile infantry before them like sheep ; but this future time was always receding ; and it is probable that ...
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... heart and soured his temper . He had learnt He self - command and dissimulation ; he affected to con- form to some of his father's views , and submissively accepted a wife , who was a wife only in name , from his father's hand . He also ...
... heart and soured his temper . He had learnt He self - command and dissimulation ; he affected to con- form to some of his father's views , and submissively accepted a wife , who was a wife only in name , from his father's hand . He also ...
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... heart was , that he might rank among the masters of French rhetoric and poetry . He wrote prose and verse as indefatigably as if he had been a starving hack of Cave or Osborn ; but Nature , which had bestowed on him , in a large measure ...
... heart was , that he might rank among the masters of French rhetoric and poetry . He wrote prose and verse as indefatigably as if he had been a starving hack of Cave or Osborn ; but Nature , which had bestowed on him , in a large measure ...
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... heart of Germany , and defeated the French at Dettingen . The Austrian captains already began to talk of completing the work of Marlborough and Eugene , and of compelling France to relinquish Alsace and the three Bishoprics . The Court ...
... heart of Germany , and defeated the French at Dettingen . The Austrian captains already began to talk of completing the work of Marlborough and Eugene , and of compelling France to relinquish Alsace and the three Bishoprics . The Court ...
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... heart - a taste for severe practical jokes . If a courtier was fond of dress , oil was flung over his richest suit . If he was fond of money , some prank was invented to make him disburse more than he could spare . If he was ...
... heart - a taste for severe practical jokes . If a courtier was fond of dress , oil was flung over his richest suit . If he was fond of money , some prank was invented to make him disburse more than he could spare . If he was ...
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