Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 22
... scarcely yields to the account which Falstaff gives of his ducking . Two other comedies without titles , the one in prose , the other in verse , appear among the works of Machiavelli . The former is very short , lively enough , but of ...
... scarcely yields to the account which Falstaff gives of his ducking . Two other comedies without titles , the one in prose , the other in verse , appear among the works of Machiavelli . The former is very short , lively enough , but of ...
Page 210
... scarcely propose that discussion should be more effectually shackled , that public opinion should be more strictly disciplined into conformity with established institutions , than in Spain and Italy . Yet we know that the restraints ...
... scarcely propose that discussion should be more effectually shackled , that public opinion should be more strictly disciplined into conformity with established institutions , than in Spain and Italy . Yet we know that the restraints ...
Page 549
... scarcely ever took wine . But when he drank it , he drank it greedily and in large tumblers . These were , in fact , mitigated symptoms of that same moral disease which raged with such deadly malignity in his friends Savage and Boyse ...
... scarcely ever took wine . But when he drank it , he drank it greedily and in large tumblers . These were , in fact , mitigated symptoms of that same moral disease which raged with such deadly malignity in his friends Savage and Boyse ...
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