Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English PoetsMacmillan, 1856 - 475 páginas |
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... WILKES AND LIBERTY . WAS there ever a time that did not think highly of its own importance ? Was there ever a time when the world did not believe itself to be going to pieces , and when alarming pam- phlets on " the present crisis " did ...
... WILKES AND LIBERTY . WAS there ever a time that did not think highly of its own importance ? Was there ever a time when the world did not believe itself to be going to pieces , and when alarming pam- phlets on " the present crisis " did ...
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... Wilkes . Arrested in 1763 , on account of the publication of No. 45 of the North Briton , in which one of the King's speeches had been severely commented on ; discharged a few days . afterwards in consequence of his privilege as a ...
... Wilkes . Arrested in 1763 , on account of the publication of No. 45 of the North Briton , in which one of the King's speeches had been severely commented on ; discharged a few days . afterwards in consequence of his privilege as a ...
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... Wilkes and Forty - five " had been chalked on the walls ; " Wilkes and Liberty " had been the cry of the mobs ; and portraits of Wilkes had hung in the windows of the print - shops . Re- membering that he was the champion of liberal ...
... Wilkes and Forty - five " had been chalked on the walls ; " Wilkes and Liberty " had been the cry of the mobs ; and portraits of Wilkes had hung in the windows of the print - shops . Re- membering that he was the champion of liberal ...
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... Wilkes was in the King's Bench , Southwark . His consolations , we may suppose , were , that by all this his popularity had been but increased ; that Parson Horne and the Society for the protection of the Bill of Rights had organised a ...
... Wilkes was in the King's Bench , Southwark . His consolations , we may suppose , were , that by all this his popularity had been but increased ; that Parson Horne and the Society for the protection of the Bill of Rights had organised a ...
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... Wilkes's " Essay on Woman , " addicted to horrible slang against Bute and the whole Scottish nation , and raving mad about a thing he called Liberty . He read and repeated Junius , made jokes against parsons , and ( only until he ...
... Wilkes's " Essay on Woman , " addicted to horrible slang against Bute and the whole Scottish nation , and raving mad about a thing he called Liberty . He read and repeated Junius , made jokes against parsons , and ( only until he ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Página 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Página 44 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Página 440 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
Página 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Página 441 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Página 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...
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Wordsworth and the Formation of English Studies Ian Reid No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2004 |