 | John Morley - 1921 - 268 páginas
...advocates ? " Controvertists cannot long retain their kindness for each other, and every reader must surely regret that these two illustrious friends, after so...study, should finally part in acrimonious opposition." The spirit of faction was too busy and too hot for these pensive regrets, and no effort was spared... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 252 páginas
...advocates ? " Controvertists cannot long retain their kindness for each other, and every reader must surely regret that these two illustrious friends, after so...study, should finally part in acrimonious opposition." The spirit of faction was too busy and too hot for these pensive regrets, and no effort was spared... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1876 - 840 páginas
...and thus — to vise the words of Johnson, who terms the controversy Bettum plus quam civile — " these two illustrious friends, after so many years...interest, conformity of opinion, and fellowship of study," parted finally " in acrimonious opposition." There was no time for the reconciliation which one must... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 418 páginas
...seventy-seven. Every reader surely must regret that these two illustrious friends, after so many years past in confidence and endearment, in unity of interest,...study, should finally part in acrimonious opposition. Such a controversy was " Bellum plusquam civile," as Lucan expresses it. Why could not faction find... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1811 - 682 páginas
...177. " Every reader surely must regret that these two illustrious friends, after so many years past in confidence and endearment, in unity of interest,...study, should finally part in acrimonious opposition. Such :» controversy was ' Bellum ' plusquam civile,' as Lucan expresses it. Why could not faction... | |
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CIVILE," as Lucan expresses it. Why could not faction find other advocates? But among the uncertainties of the human state, we are doomed to number the instability of friendship. 
