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" List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter... "
The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan - Page 316
by Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...prelate. List• his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter. This fellow's of exceeding honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings....
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The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 882 pages
...study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn KING RICHARD II. er 0 on 0 of tfj* drama. King RICHARD the Second. ED3tVKDofLangUy, duke ; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's...
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The Plays, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1824 - 422 pages
...study : List* his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in nuisick : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's...
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Duke Christian of Luneburg: Or, Tradition from the Hartz, Volume 1

Jane Porter - 1824 - 322 pages
...study : List his discourse of war, ami,you shall hear A fearful battle rendered you in music! . Turn him to any cause of policy, The gordian knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter:—that when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still; And the mute wonder lurketh...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...made a prelate. Let him but talk of any state-affair, You'd say it had been all in all his study. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, stands still — but, ere you have time to answer him,...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...made a prelate. Let him but talk of any state-affair, You'd say it had been all in all his study. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, stands still — but, ere you have time to answer him,...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things : in Two Volumes, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1826 - 462 pages
...made a prelate. Let him but talk of any state-affair, You'd say it had been all in all his study. Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter. When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, stands still — but, ere you have time to answer him,...
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The National magazine and general review

James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR or THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT PEEL. " Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose Familiar as his garter." SUAKSTEARE. FOLJ.OWING up the intention expressed in our last number, we have selected for the subject...
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Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical and ..., Volume 11

1826 - 320 pages
...his study: List his discourse of war, and you -lull hear A fearful battle rendered you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter; that, when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still, And the mute wonder lurketh in men's...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 602 pages
...study : List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in musick : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ; that, when he speaks, 9 Never came reformation in a fiood,] Alluding to the method by which Hercules...
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