Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Page 14
... never loses the esteem and affection of Northern readers . His intrepid and ardent spirit redeems everything . The unsuspecting confidence with which he listens to his adviser , the agony with which he shrinks from the thought of shame ...
... never loses the esteem and affection of Northern readers . His intrepid and ardent spirit redeems everything . The unsuspecting confidence with which he listens to his adviser , the agony with which he shrinks from the thought of shame ...
Page 17
... never hesitates at an oath when he wishes to seduce , who never wants a pretext when he is inclined to betray . His cruelties spring , not from the heat of blood , or the insanity of uncontrolled power , but from deep and cool ...
... never hesitates at an oath when he wishes to seduce , who never wants a pretext when he is inclined to betray . His cruelties spring , not from the heat of blood , or the insanity of uncontrolled power , but from deep and cool ...
Page 48
... never known before . All ranks , all varieties of character , joined the ranks of the innovators . Sovereigns impatient to appropriate to themselves the prerogatives of the Pope , nobles desirous to share the plunder of abbeys , suitors ...
... never known before . All ranks , all varieties of character , joined the ranks of the innovators . Sovereigns impatient to appropriate to themselves the prerogatives of the Pope , nobles desirous to share the plunder of abbeys , suitors ...
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... never disturbed the peace of the world . It furnishes no motive for action . It inspires no enthusiasm . It has no missionaries , no crusaders , no martyrs . If the Patriarch of the Holy Philosophical Church had con- tented himself with ...
... never disturbed the peace of the world . It furnishes no motive for action . It inspires no enthusiasm . It has no missionaries , no crusaders , no martyrs . If the Patriarch of the Holy Philosophical Church had con- tented himself with ...
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... never extended beyond low - water mark . The narrowest strait was to his power what it was of old believed that a running stream was to the sorceries of a witch . While his army entered every metropolis from Moscow to Lisbon , the ...
... never extended beyond low - water mark . The narrowest strait was to his power what it was of old believed that a running stream was to the sorceries of a witch . While his army entered every metropolis from Moscow to Lisbon , the ...
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