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... prince and prototype of the moralists of expediency . To translate his artless and delicate irony is hardly possible . The writer of this hasty Preface offers the following only as an attempted imitation : - BALLAD UPON ESCOBAR . GOOD ...
... prince and prototype of the moralists of expediency . To translate his artless and delicate irony is hardly possible . The writer of this hasty Preface offers the following only as an attempted imitation : - BALLAD UPON ESCOBAR . GOOD ...
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... PRINCE the favourite of the skies , On whom the world entire hath fix'd its eyes , Who hence shall count his conquests by his days , And gather from the proudest lips his praise , A louder voice than mine must tell in song What virtues ...
... PRINCE the favourite of the skies , On whom the world entire hath fix'd its eyes , Who hence shall count his conquests by his days , And gather from the proudest lips his praise , A louder voice than mine must tell in song What virtues ...
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... prince has more than one dependant Who keeps an army at his own expense . ' The Turk , a man of sense , Rejoin'd , ' I am aware What power your emperor's servants share . It brings to mind a tale both strange and true , A thing which ...
... prince has more than one dependant Who keeps an army at his own expense . ' The Turk , a man of sense , Rejoin'd , ' I am aware What power your emperor's servants share . It brings to mind a tale both strange and true , A thing which ...
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... prince ; While bipeds and quadrupeds served to devour , And trample , and waste , in the space of an hour , Far more than a nation of foraging hares Could possibly do in a hundred of years . Small princes , this story is true , When ...
... prince ; While bipeds and quadrupeds served to devour , And trample , and waste , in the space of an hour , Far more than a nation of foraging hares Could possibly do in a hundred of years . Small princes , this story is true , When ...
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... prince , who chanced a mine to own , At last , obliged them with a loan . The mule and ass , to bear the treasure , Their service tender'd , full of pleasure ; 1 The story of this fable has been traced to Gilbert Cousin , in whose works ...
... prince , who chanced a mine to own , At last , obliged them with a loan . The mule and ass , to bear the treasure , Their service tender'd , full of pleasure ; 1 The story of this fable has been traced to Gilbert Cousin , in whose works ...
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