Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 73
... literary privileges once enjoyed by lords are as obsolete as their right to kill the king's deer on their way to Parliament , or as their old remedy of scandalum magnatum . Yet we must acknowledge that , though our political opinions ...
... literary privileges once enjoyed by lords are as obsolete as their right to kill the king's deer on their way to Parliament , or as their old remedy of scandalum magnatum . Yet we must acknowledge that , though our political opinions ...
Page 467
... literary questions , his caustic , disdainful , and self - confident spirit rebelled against that authority to which everything else in France bowed down . He had the spirit to tell Lewis the Fourteenth firmly and even rudely , that his ...
... literary questions , his caustic , disdainful , and self - confident spirit rebelled against that authority to which everything else in France bowed down . He had the spirit to tell Lewis the Fourteenth firmly and even rudely , that his ...
Page 630
... literary revolution was evidently at hand . There was a ferment in the minds of men , a vague craving for something new , a disposition to hail with delight anything which might at first sight wear the appearance of originality . A ...
... literary revolution was evidently at hand . There was a ferment in the minds of men , a vague craving for something new , a disposition to hail with delight anything which might at first sight wear the appearance of originality . A ...
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