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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 - 1860 - 412 pages
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The Rambler, a Catholic journal of home and foreign literature [&c ..., Volume 8

1851 - 542 pages
...honourable, virtuous, true, and immortal prince, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion...of his country or the respect of posterity! " These are hard truths ; but are they not truths ? And have we not suffered enough—are we not now suffering...
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The American Whig Review, Volumes 13-14

1851 - 1220 pages
...a libertine, over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblors and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century...gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity !" Mr. Hunt thinks " the very sincere tone " of this libel might have furnished the Prince with a ground...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 24

American essays - 1869 - 796 pages
...violator of his word, a libertine, over hfead and ears in 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." Hunt, with his brother, who was a joint proprietor of the Examiner, paid the penalty of such audacity...
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The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt - Authors, English - 1860 - 510 pages
...immortal prince, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in disgrace, a despiscr of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps,...his country, or the respect of posterity ! " These are hard truths ; but are they not truths ? And hare we not suffered enough — are we not now suffering...
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Annual Register, Volume 101

Edmund Burke - History - 1860 - 900 pages
...Jininmrable, rirtuonx, true, and immortal prince, was a violator of his word, ti libertine, over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion...gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half n century without one single claim on the gratitude of hi« country, or the respect of posterity."...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year ...

History - 1860 - 876 pages
...honourable, nrtaMuy, true, and immortal prince, wan a violator of his word, a libertine, over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who bus just elosed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country, or the respect...
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Temple Bar, Volume 108

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1896 - 640 pages
...honourable, virtuaus, true and immortal prince was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion...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 of...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 3; Volume 66

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1866 - 828 pages
...ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic lies, the companion of gamblers and demireps, я man who has just closed half a century without one...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 life and times of viscount Palmerston, Volume 1; Volume 86

James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 pages
...virtuous, true, immortal PRINCE was a violator of his word ; a libertine, over head and years 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 a single claim on the gratitude of his country, or the respect...
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Glimpses of History

George Makepeace Towle - History, Modern - 1866 - 276 pages
...apparent. Hunt went so far in this article as to call the prince a liar, a libertine head over ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, and other epithets equally gross. The government was prompt in bringing the authors of this libel to...
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