 | Literature - 1896 - 926 pages
...consequences, nor yet unhappily, for the memory of George IV. has never got over it— runs as follows:— What person, unacquainted with the true state of the...reproaches! that this "protector of the arts" had named а wretched foreigner his historical painter, in disparagement or in ignorance of the merits of his... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1813 - 824 pages
...opening the pleadings, the libel, which appeared on the 22d March, was read, as follows :— • " What person, unacquainted with the true state of the...reading these astounding eulogies, that this Glory of tlit People was the subject of millions of shrugs and reproaches ! That this Protector of the Aril... | |
 | Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 332 pages
...hagiography for a notoriously self-indulgent, untrustworthy libertine, Hunt lashed out in the Examiner: What person, unacquainted with the true state of the...millions of shrugs and reproaches! . . . That this Conqueror of Hearts was the disappointer of hopes! That this Exciter of Desire . . . this Adonis in... | |
 | Art - 1812 - 682 pages
...«bject [Jan. I3 object of millions of shrugs and reproaches ? That this ï'rotector of the Arts h;id named a •wretched foreigner his historical painter,...in disparagement or in ignorance of the merits of h'u own countrymen1 That this Mecacnas of the Age patronized not a single deserving writer ! That this... | |
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What person, unacquainted with the true state of the case, would imagine, in reading these astounding eulogies, that this ' Glory of the people' was the subject of millions of shrugs and reproaches ! — that this 'Protector of the arts... 
