Sketches of English Literature, 2: With Considerations on the Spirit of the TimesHenry Collurn, 1887 - English literature |
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... Louis XIV . and Cardinal Mazarine . 66 RICHARD , Protector of the Commonwealth of England , & c . to the Most Serene and Potent Prince , LEWIS , King of France . " Most Serene and Potent King , our Friend and Confederate , -So soon as ...
... Louis XIV . and Cardinal Mazarine . 66 RICHARD , Protector of the Commonwealth of England , & c . to the Most Serene and Potent Prince , LEWIS , King of France . " Most Serene and Potent King , our Friend and Confederate , -So soon as ...
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... Louis XIV . Louis XIV . wore mourning for a regicide , and it was the bard who sang the deeds of Satan , the republican apologist of the death of Charles I. the enemy of kings and of Catholics , who acquainted the absolute monarch , the ...
... Louis XIV . Louis XIV . wore mourning for a regicide , and it was the bard who sang the deeds of Satan , the republican apologist of the death of Charles I. the enemy of kings and of Catholics , who acquainted the absolute monarch , the ...
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... Louis XIV.'s glory , Andromache made its ap- pearance on our stage . Was John Milton then known in France ? Yes , perhaps , by some few lawyers as a rascally scribbler , whose diatribes had been duly burned by the executioners of Paris ...
... Louis XIV.'s glory , Andromache made its ap- pearance on our stage . Was John Milton then known in France ? Yes , perhaps , by some few lawyers as a rascally scribbler , whose diatribes had been duly burned by the executioners of Paris ...
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... Louis XIV .; poetry lost by this external movement , which , however , proved advantageous to prose . Without soaring to the height of eloquence , Tillotson refined the language of the pulpit . Sir William Temple was the D'Ossat of ...
... Louis XIV .; poetry lost by this external movement , which , however , proved advantageous to prose . Without soaring to the height of eloquence , Tillotson refined the language of the pulpit . Sir William Temple was the D'Ossat of ...
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... Louis XIV . , this monarch fancied that he was only fettering Charles , whilst he was over- throwing James ; the corruption of this policy carried within itself its own punishment ; inte- grity , in Bacon , did not keep pace with ...
... Louis XIV . , this monarch fancied that he was only fettering Charles , whilst he was over- throwing James ; the corruption of this policy carried within itself its own punishment ; inte- grity , in Bacon , did not keep pace with ...
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