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" Waller, though confessedly," says Clarendon, " the most guilty, with incredible dissimulation affected such a remorse of conscience, that his trial was put off, out of Christian compassion, till he might recover his understanding. "
Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt - Page 311
by Samuel Johnson - 1854
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...be proved that they had consented to their own nomination ; but they were considered as malignant.*, and their estates were seized. " Waller, though confessedly," says Clarendon, " the most guilty, vcith " incredible dissimulation affected such a remorse of conscience, that his " trial was put off,...
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The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted ...

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...being " too great for prosecution," as Johnson terms it, was only once examined before the lords. " Waller, though confessedly," says Clarendon, " the...compassion, till he might recover his understanding." When brought before the house, h; confessed and lamented, and submitted, and implored — He was, however,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...be proved that they had consented to their own nomination ; but they were considered as malignants, and their estates were seized. " Waller, though confessedly,"...most guilty, with incredible dissimulation affected 1' fected such a remorse of conscience, that his trial '' was put off, out of Christian compassion,...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...they were considered as malignants, and their estates were seized. " WaJkr, though confessedly," gays Clarendon, " the most guilty, with incredible dissimulation affected such a remorse of conscience, that his (rial was put off, out of Christian compassion, till he might recover his understanding." What use...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 31

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 496 pages
...seized. " Waller," says Clarendon, whom we have already quoted on this point, " though confessedly the most guilty, with incredible dissimulation, affected...conscience, that his trial was put off, out of Christian cempassion, till he might recover his understanding." What use he made of this interval, with what...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Biography - 1817 - 504 pages
...were seized. " Waller," says Clarendon, whom we have already quoted on this point, "though confessedly the most guilty, with incredible dissimulation, affected...such a remorse of conscience, that his trial was put oil', out of Cbristian compassion, till he might recover his understanding." What use be made of this...
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the ..., Volume 10

John Aikin - Biography - 1815 - 506 pages
...Tomkyns and Chaloner, another conspirator, were hanged ; and that Waller who, according to Clarendon, " with incredible dissimulation affected such a remorse...compassion, till he might recover his understanding," was expelled the house, tried and condemned; but, after a year's imprisonment, and paying a fine of...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...be proved that they had consented to their own nomination ; but they were considered as malignants, and their estates were seized. " Waller, though confessedly,"..." the most guilty, with incredible dissimulation, af. " fected such a remorse of conscience, that his trial " was put off, out of Christian compassion,...
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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...seized. " Waller," says Clarendon, whom we have already quoted on this point, " though confessedly the most guilty» with incredible dissimulation, affected...trial was put off, out of Christian compassion, till Ive might recover his understanding." What use he made of this interval, with what liberality and success...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 31

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...were seized. " Waller," says Clarendon, whom we have already quoted on this point, "though confessedly the most guilty, with incredible dissimulation, affected...conscience, that his trial was put off, out of Christian cempassion, till he might recover his understanding." What use he made of this interval, with what...
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