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" Adonis in loveliness' was a corpulent man 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 disgrace, a despiser... "
The Rambler, a Catholic journal of home and foreign literature [&c.]. Vol.5 ... - Page 50
1851
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Passages from the Life of Charles Knight

Charles Knight - Publishers and publishing - 1874 - 508 pages
..."Examiner" to designate the Prince as " a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity." Posterity has not given such an answer as would put to shame this daring appeal to its jiidgment. But...
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Passages from the Life of Charles Knight

Charles Knight - Publishers and publishing - 1874 - 516 pages
..."Examiner" to designate the Prince as " a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity." Posterity has not given such an answer as would put to shame this daring appeal to its judgment. But...
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A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age: From Personal Acquaintance

Samuel Carter Hall - Artists - 1877 - 522 pages
...virtuous, true, and immortal prince was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion...gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity ?" • The visit of Leigh Hunt to Lord Byron, and its result in the publication of The Liberal: Verse...
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1883 - 866 pages
...Messieurs of the Post Л — this 'Adonis in loveliness ' was a corpulent man of fifty Î in short, this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable,...gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity ?>Y 'This article, no doubt,' says Leigh Hunt at a later period, ' was very bitter and contemptuous...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Text Carefully ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Michael Rossetti - 1881 - 482 pages
...true, and immortal Prince* was a violator of his words, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity." bed that night, had expected to have occasion for pistols, and had loaded a brace : possibly the arrival...
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The Life of George the Fourth: Including His Letters and Opinions ..., Volume 2

Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - Great Britain - 1881 - 464 pages
...violator of his word, a libertine, over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, a companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity ! " Lord Ellenborough dealt with the accused in the severest style in his partial charge, alluding...
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The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats: Now First ..., Volume 1

John Keats - Poets, English - 1883 - 446 pages
...Messieurs of the Posi.'] — this 'Adonis in loveliness' was a corpulent man of fifty ! — in short, this delightful, blissful, -wise, pleasurable, honourable,...gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity !" Even towards such a ruthless polemic as Professor Wilson one must seek to be just ; and I do not...
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The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats: Now First ..., Volume 1

John Keats - Poets, English - 1883 - 440 pages
...Messieurs of \hePost. '] — this 'Adonis in loveliness' was a corpulent man of fifty ! — in short, this delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable,...gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity ! " Even towards such a ruthless polemic as Professor Wilson one must seek to be just ; and I do not...
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How to Get on in the World: As Demonstrated by the Life and Language of ...

Robert Waters - English language - 1883 - 616 pages
...ears in 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...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity!" For this picture, true no doubt to the life, and worthy of Cobbett himself, Leigh Hunt, with his brother...
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Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors, Volume 5

English wit and humor - 1888 - 344 pages
...Loveliness' was a corpulent man of fifty ! In short, this delightful, blissful, wise, fleasureable, honourable, virtuous, true and immortal Prince was...on the gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity.1' The Hunts were informed that if they would undertake to abstain from commenting on the...
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