PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country... The Edinburgh Annual Register - Página 199editado por - 1814Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1892 - 718 páginas
...ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim...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 this reproof... | |
| David Bromwich - 1987 - 320 páginas
...ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity." The article provoked the Tory ministry to prosecute both Hunts on charges of seditious libel, and they... | |
| George Holbert Tucker - 1995 - 296 páginas
...domestic ti&t, the companiea of gamhlers and demireps, a man who hasjust closed half a century without eae single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity," This blast earned Hunt and his brother two-year prison sentences and a fine amounting to several hundred... | |
| Mike Corbishley - 1998 - 420 páginas
...king was. in the words of one newspaper, 'over head and heels in debt and disgrace ... a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country'. In 18an he created a huge public scandal when he tried to divorce bis wife. Caroline. The crowds cheered... | |
| David Bromwich - 1999 - 484 páginas
...debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity"; 7 and, on the verge of the trial for libel that soon followed, addressing the judge, Lord Ellenborough,... | |
| Andrew Motion - 1999 - 702 páginas
...debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim...on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity.23 Although the Hunt brothers had previously published several similar articles, they must... | |
| John Clarke, Jasper Godwin Ridley - 2000 - 126 páginas
...despiser of domestic ties, the companion of demi-reps, a man who has just closed half a century without a single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity.' More than anyone else, the Prince was responsible for the cruel slander that George m spent most of... | |
| Matt Richardson - 2001 - 336 páginas
...Regent, in his radical journal the Examiner, as "a corpulent gentleman of fifty" and "...a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity." The prince was not averse to dishing it out a little on occasion, however: one of 766 his favourite gags... | |
| Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - 2004 - 332 páginas
...debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity! (Selected Writings, I: 2.2.1) It was the extremity of this diatribe that enabled the government, after... | |
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