Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1850 |
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Pagina 19
... favourite child . But even Burleigh's fatherly partiality could hardly prevent him from perceiving that Robert , with all his abilities and acquirements , was no match for his cousin Francis . This seems to us the only rational ...
... favourite child . But even Burleigh's fatherly partiality could hardly prevent him from perceiving that Robert , with all his abilities and acquirements , was no match for his cousin Francis . This seems to us the only rational ...
Pagina 23
... favourite at Court and popular with the multitude . If any man could have succeeded in this attempt , a man of talents so rare , of judgment so prematurely ripe , of temper so calm , and of manners so plausible , might have been ...
... favourite at Court and popular with the multitude . If any man could have succeeded in this attempt , a man of talents so rare , of judgment so prematurely ripe , of temper so calm , and of manners so plausible , might have been ...
Pagina 24
... favourite , young , noble , wealthy , accomplished , eloquent , brave , generous , aspiring ; a favourite who had obtained from the grey - headed queen such marks of regard as she had scarce vouchsafed to Leicester in the season of the ...
... favourite , young , noble , wealthy , accomplished , eloquent , brave , generous , aspiring ; a favourite who had obtained from the grey - headed queen such marks of regard as she had scarce vouchsafed to Leicester in the season of the ...
Pagina 56
... favourite became greater daily . The contest between the ri- vals might , however , have lasted long , but for that frightful crime which , in spite of all that could be effected by the re- search and ingenuity of historians , is still ...
... favourite became greater daily . The contest between the ri- vals might , however , have lasted long , but for that frightful crime which , in spite of all that could be effected by the re- search and ingenuity of historians , is still ...
Pagina 58
... favourites acted towards Bacon was highly characteristic , and may serve to illustrate the old and true saying , that a man is generally more inclined to feel kindly towards one on whom he has conferred favours than towards one from ...
... favourites acted towards Bacon was highly characteristic , and may serve to illustrate the old and true saying , that a man is generally more inclined to feel kindly towards one on whom he has conferred favours than towards one from ...
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