Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1850 |
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... never seen with new faces , who are the same in wealth and in po- verty , in glory and in obscurity . With the dead there is no rivalry . In the dead there is no change . Plato is never sul- len . Cervantes is never petulant . Demosthenes ...
... never seen with new faces , who are the same in wealth and in po- verty , in glory and in obscurity . With the dead there is no rivalry . In the dead there is no change . Plato is never sul- len . Cervantes is never petulant . Demosthenes ...
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... Never was there a character which it was easier to read than that of Cicero . Never was there a mind keener or more critical than that of Middleton . Had the biographer brought to the examination of his favou- rite statesman's conduct ...
... Never was there a character which it was easier to read than that of Cicero . Never was there a mind keener or more critical than that of Middleton . Had the biographer brought to the examination of his favou- rite statesman's conduct ...
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... never been attached to her by affection , and who were now but very slightly attached to her by interest . Prostration and flattery could not conceal from her the cruel truth , that those whom she had trusted and promoted had never ...
... never been attached to her by affection , and who were now but very slightly attached to her by interest . Prostration and flattery could not conceal from her the cruel truth , that those whom she had trusted and promoted had never ...
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... never thought that he had done It seems never to have crossed the mind of the enough . powerful and wealthy noble that the poor barrister whom he treated with such munificent kindness was not his equal . It was , we have no doubt , with ...
... never thought that he had done It seems never to have crossed the mind of the enough . powerful and wealthy noble that the poor barrister whom he treated with such munificent kindness was not his equal . It was , we have no doubt , with ...
Pagina 66
... never forgot . The favourite received the news of the Lord Keeper's interference with feelings of the most violent resent- ment , and made the King even more angry than himself . Ba- con's eyes were at once opened to his error , and to ...
... never forgot . The favourite received the news of the Lord Keeper's interference with feelings of the most violent resent- ment , and made the King even more angry than himself . Ba- con's eyes were at once opened to his error , and to ...
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