 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...  Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century: With a Prelude of Early ... - Page 134by Charles Knight - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1814 - 536 pages
...debt and 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." — The learned Solicitor-General's address was short, leaving it to the good sense and understanding... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - 1815 - 622 pages
...and immortal PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgraoe, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers...gratitude 'of his country, or the respect of posterity !" . • v After the opening remarks of the attorney-general, the other passages of the a-rticle which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1821 - 976 pages
...of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country, or the respect of posterity !" The Solicitor-General, having asked Mr. Brougham, counsel for the defendants, whether he wished... | |
 | 1896 - 926 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,...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... | |
 | 1889 - 864 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 on the gratitude of his country or the respect or posterity." It might be true or it might be false ; but certainly there was then not a country in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1850 - 320 pages
...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...gratitude 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1850 - 354 pages
...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...gratitude 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1850 - 354 pages
...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...gratitude 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... | |
 | 1851 - 542 pages
...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...gratitude 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... | |
 | 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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