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" Adonis in Loveliness, was a corpulent gentleman of fifty ! In short, that this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a... "
The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt - Page 224
by Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt - 1860 - 412 pages
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 54

History - 1813 - 818 pages
...Pr&ce, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who ban just closed half a ceniury rentury without one single claim en the gratitude of his country, of...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Part 2

Walter Scott - Europe - 1814 - 536 pages
...Prince, was a violaterof his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who had just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect...
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An impartial history of the naval, military and political events ..., Volume 2

Hewson Clarke - 1815 - 622 pages
...PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgraoe, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps,...gratitude 'of his country, or the respect of posterity !" . • v After the opening remarks of the attorney-general, the other passages of the a-rticle which...
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Annual Register, Volume 54

Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 976 pages
...Prince, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity !" The...
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...immortal prince, was a violator of his word, a libertine, over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps,...has just closed half a century without one single chum on the gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity Î 'This article, no doubt,' says...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 210

Literature - 1896 - 926 pages
...loveliness" was a corpulent man of fifty! In short, this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honorable, virtuous, true, and immortal prince was a violator...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity. To prison he must go; and— which he had not foreseen — apart from his brother John, the sharer...
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The Living Age, Volume 194

1892 - 848 pages
...prince, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domesic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man...century without one single claim on the gratitude of bis country, or the respect of posterity ! " The times have indeed changed since flattery of so gross...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 181

Literature - 1889 - 864 pages
...over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of demireps, a man who had just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect or posterity." It might be true or it might be false ; but certainly there was then not a country in...
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The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, Volume 2

Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1850 - 354 pages
...immortal prince, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps,...These are hard truths; but are they not truths? And have we not suffered enough — are we not now suffering bitterly — from the disgusting flatteries...
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The autobiography of Leigh Hunt, with reminiscences of friends and ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1850 - 320 pages
...immortal prince, was a violator of his word, a libertine, over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps,...These are hard truths; but are they not truths? And have we not suffered enough — are we not now suffering bitterly — from the disgusting flatteries...
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