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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 54
1851
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John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics and After-fame

Sidney Colvin - Poets, English - 1917 - 658 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.' This attack followed within a few weeks of another almost as stinging contributed anonymously by Charles...
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Essays--Fielding: Smollett: Hazlitt: Burns: Byron's World: 'Pippin': Othello ...

William Ernest Henley - English literature - 1921 - 454 pages
...and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demi-reps,' and ' a man who has just closed half a century without one...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity.' Hunt was a Radical, of course, and Moore a Whig ; but to abuse the Regent was to go straight to the...
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The Manchester Guardian: A Century of History

William Haslam Mills - English newspapers - 1921 - 188 pages
...Prince Regent as " a corpulent man of fifty, a libertine over head and ears in disgrace, a man who has 8 just closed half a century without one single claim...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity." John Edward Taylor writes to his sister an account of his visit to Leigh Hunt, " a very interesting...
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The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith, Volume 10

Great Britain - 1922 - 1916 pages
...ears in disgrace, adespiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man whohas just closed half a century without one single claim...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity.' A prosecution of Hunt and his brother followed. They were tried in December 1812 ; Brougham again appeared...
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The Collected Essays and Papers of George Saintsbury, 1875-1920 ...

George Saintsbury - English literature - 1923 - 456 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...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity." It might be true or it might be false; but certainly there was then not a country in Europe where it...
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The Complete Works of John Keats, Volume 1

John Keats - 1924 - 268 pages
...Messieurs of the ' Post ' I] — this ' Adonis in loveliness ' was a corpulent man of fifty I — 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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Shelley, His Life and Work, Volume 1

Walter Edwin Peck - Poets, English - 1927 - 650 pages
...Patrick's Day," which included a paragraph describing His Royal Highness as "a corpulent man of fifty ... a violator of his word, a libertine over head and...gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity! " 41 It was not the first offence of this newspaper against the Powers That Were. Three prosecutions...
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Shelley, His Life and Work, Volume 1

Walter Edwin Peck - Poets, English - 1927 - 622 pages
...Patrick's Day," which included a paragraph describing His Royal Highness as "a corpulent man of fifty ... a violator of his word, a libertine over head and...on the gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity!"41 It was not the first offence of this newspaper against the Powers That Were. Three prosecutions...
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Theodore Hook and His Novels

Myron Franklin Brightfield - Authors, English - 1928 - 440 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. In fairness to Theodore Hook the bitter tone of political controversy at the time should be remembered....
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 18; Volume 65

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1892 - 718 pages
...delightful, blissful, wise, pleasurable, honourable, virtuous, true and immortal prince, was a violater of his word, a libertine over head and ears in disgrace,...gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity ! ' The times have indeed changed since flattery of so gross and outrageous a nature as drew forth...
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