With the Wits: Shelburne Essays, Tenth SeriesHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 311 páginas |
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Página iii
... Queen Anne and went into opposition on the coming of George the First , and so far the title of the book may be justified ; but some of the greater stars of the galaxy are missing , and others are included who had their rising at an ...
... Queen Anne and went into opposition on the coming of George the First , and so far the title of the book may be justified ; but some of the greater stars of the galaxy are missing , and others are included who had their rising at an ...
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... Queen Anne . The satire of Horace is ge- nial rather than malicious . Dr. Johnson , though he lacks the epigrammatic point of other writers , can do fairly well on occasion and is free also of personal spite . This indeed is one reason ...
... Queen Anne . The satire of Horace is ge- nial rather than malicious . Dr. Johnson , though he lacks the epigrammatic point of other writers , can do fairly well on occasion and is free also of personal spite . This indeed is one reason ...
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... Queen looks higher , and knows that the integrity of her character depends on her will to withstand these dæmonic assaults . " My mind , " she says , " has been broken by unholy loves , by a terrible disease from Aphrodite . ” And at ...
... Queen looks higher , and knows that the integrity of her character depends on her will to withstand these dæmonic assaults . " My mind , " she says , " has been broken by unholy loves , by a terrible disease from Aphrodite . ” And at ...
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... Queen looks higher , and knows that the integrity of her character depends on her will to withstand these dæmonic assaults . " My mind , " she says , " has been broken by unholy loves , by a terrible disease from Aphrodite . " And at ...
... Queen looks higher , and knows that the integrity of her character depends on her will to withstand these dæmonic assaults . " My mind , " she says , " has been broken by unholy loves , by a terrible disease from Aphrodite . " And at ...
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... Queen Henrietta Maria a " notorious whore " ) : the punishment did the cause of righteousness no harm , and it wrung from a sour pedant one of the best puns ever made in England , when he interpreted the letters S. L. as Stigmata Laudis ...
... Queen Henrietta Maria a " notorious whore " ) : the punishment did the cause of righteousness no harm , and it wrung from a sour pedant one of the best puns ever made in England , when he interpreted the letters S. L. as Stigmata Laudis ...
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