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Page 237 - Je sens le même feu, je sens la même audace, Qui fit plaindre le Cid, qui fit combattre Horace; Et je me trouve encor la main qui crayonna L'âme du grand Pompée et l'esprit de Cinna.
Page 126 - On France's score, there is Treaty with France, and War with its enemy Spain ; on the Cardinal's are obscure Court-intrigues, Queen-mothers, and one knows not what : in brief, the subtle Cardinal has found, after trial of the opposite course too, that friendship, or even at times obedient-servantship to Cromwell, will be essentially advantageous to him.
Page 191 - Christianity, a fit embodiment of that divine Sense, had been current more or less, making the generations noble : and here in England, in the Century called the Seventeenth, we see the last aspect of it hitherto, — not the last of all, it is to be hoped. Oliver was henceforth a Christian man ; believed in God, not on Sundays only, but on all days, in all places and in all cases.