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... Lothario , holding honour at no price , Folly to folly added , vice to vice , Wrought sin with greediness , and courted shame With greater zeal than good men seek for fame . " As a poet , Churchill was much over - rated .
... Lothario , holding honour at no price , Folly to folly added , vice to vice , Wrought sin with greediness , and courted shame With greater zeal than good men seek for fame . " As a poet , Churchill was much over - rated .
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In the year 1812 , however , I was honoured with the rare and enviable distinction of becoming a member of the Sublime Society . It was then domiciled , for a short time , at the Bedford , under the Piazza , the beautiful apartments at ...
In the year 1812 , however , I was honoured with the rare and enviable distinction of becoming a member of the Sublime Society . It was then domiciled , for a short time , at the Bedford , under the Piazza , the beautiful apartments at ...
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How sublime was his attitude the other night , how lofty and commanding his elevation , when he rebuked Hume for putting his -pounds , shillings , and pence , into the scale against the honour and faith of a nation , whose honour and ...
How sublime was his attitude the other night , how lofty and commanding his elevation , when he rebuked Hume for putting his -pounds , shillings , and pence , into the scale against the honour and faith of a nation , whose honour and ...
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Whatever may be the share of honour due to the art of a player , neither at Paris , nor at Madrid , nor at Petersburgh ; no , nor any where , but in the mid - heart of cockneyism , would it have been so insulted , as it was by the ...
Whatever may be the share of honour due to the art of a player , neither at Paris , nor at Madrid , nor at Petersburgh ; no , nor any where , but in the mid - heart of cockneyism , would it have been so insulted , as it was by the ...
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By the way , was it not Rogers , or some other incorrigible punster , who , when some Scotch people were extolling M'Adam's roads , and exclaiming , that had he lived in one of the ancient republics , public honours would have been ...
By the way , was it not Rogers , or some other incorrigible punster , who , when some Scotch people were extolling M'Adam's roads , and exclaiming , that had he lived in one of the ancient republics , public honours would have been ...
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