Pen Sketches by a Vanished Hand: From the Papers of the Late Mortimer Collins, Band 2R. Bentley and son, 1879 |
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... political opponent . A third contradicted both ; the tale was neither autobio- graphical nor satirical ; it was a full revelation of dread political mysteries connected partly with Church dis- VOL . II . : A establishment , partly with ...
... political opponent . A third contradicted both ; the tale was neither autobio- graphical nor satirical ; it was a full revelation of dread political mysteries connected partly with Church dis- VOL . II . : A establishment , partly with ...
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... political strife and triumph ; he wrote his own imaginary story with a pen that never paused , in swift sentences which seemed to burn the paper . " At this moment , " he soliloquised , " how many a powerful noble wants only wit to be a ...
... political strife and triumph ; he wrote his own imaginary story with a pen that never paused , in swift sentences which seemed to burn the paper . " At this moment , " he soliloquised , " how many a powerful noble wants only wit to be a ...
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... politics ; he is always brilliant , adven- turous , dauntless , utterly unscrupulous ; a being without morals , but with some metaphysics . In tracing the resemblances , it should be at no time forgotten that Byron is of the Aryan type ...
... politics ; he is always brilliant , adven- turous , dauntless , utterly unscrupulous ; a being without morals , but with some metaphysics . In tracing the resemblances , it should be at no time forgotten that Byron is of the Aryan type ...
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... political biographer , and , for once , dull . He has imitated Swift in Popanilla , whose hero is a modern Gulliver . One of his most amusing and briefest extravaganzas is Ixion in Heaven , a mythological romance which , done into verse ...
... political biographer , and , for once , dull . He has imitated Swift in Popanilla , whose hero is a modern Gulliver . One of his most amusing and briefest extravaganzas is Ixion in Heaven , a mythological romance which , done into verse ...
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... political arena , and fight the cause of the people , and resuscitate Toryism and the Church , and extinguish the Radicals . But it seems as if the movement came just a little too late . Political progress had gone into a given . groove ...
... political arena , and fight the cause of the people , and resuscitate Toryism and the Church , and extinguish the Radicals . But it seems as if the movement came just a little too late . Political progress had gone into a given . groove ...
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