Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 17
... King George's arrival . ' 2 Now Johnson , though a bigoted Tory , was not quite such a fool as Mr. Croker here repre- sents him to be . In the Life of Granville , Lord Lansdowne , which stands a very few pages from the Life of Tickell ...
... King George's arrival . ' 2 Now Johnson , though a bigoted Tory , was not quite such a fool as Mr. Croker here repre- sents him to be . In the Life of Granville , Lord Lansdowne , which stands a very few pages from the Life of Tickell ...
Page 36
... King's Bench prison and of Mount Scoundrel in the Fleet . Even the poorest pitied him ; and they well might pity him . For if their condition was equally abject , their aspirings were not equally high , nor their sense of insult equally ...
... King's Bench prison and of Mount Scoundrel in the Fleet . Even the poorest pitied him ; and they well might pity him . For if their condition was equally abject , their aspirings were not equally high , nor their sense of insult equally ...
Page 55
... king of France has no sons , but only a daughter , then , when the king dies , this here daughter , according to that there law , cannot be made queen , but the next near relative , provided he is a man , is made king , and not the last ...
... king of France has no sons , but only a daughter , then , when the king dies , this here daughter , according to that there law , cannot be made queen , but the next near relative , provided he is a man , is made king , and not the last ...
Page 58
... king's English . His constant practice of padding out a sentence with useless epithets , till it became as stiff as the bust of an exquisite , his antithetical forms of expression , con- stantly employed even where there is no ...
... king's English . His constant practice of padding out a sentence with useless epithets , till it became as stiff as the bust of an exquisite , his antithetical forms of expression , con- stantly employed even where there is no ...
Page 86
... king- doms , seem to have been not undeserving of the praises of Fortescue . The government of Edward the Fourth , though we call it cruel and arbitrary , was humane and liberal when compared with that of Lewis the Eleventh , or that of ...
... king- doms , seem to have been not undeserving of the praises of Fortescue . The government of Edward the Fourth , though we call it cruel and arbitrary , was humane and liberal when compared with that of Lewis the Eleventh , or that of ...
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