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" He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates into a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be... "
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE - Page 103
by W. T. Sherwin - 1819 - 232 pages
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The Political Works of Thomas Paine: Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the ...

Thomas Paine - 1826 - 470 pages
...art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroime must be a tragedy rictim, expiring, in show, and not, the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon. As Mr. Burke has passed over the whole transaction of the Bastille (and his silence is nothing in his...
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An Exposition of the Mysteries; Or, Religious Dogmas and Customs of the ...

John Fellows - 1835 - 432 pages
...art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragidy-vietem, expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery,...sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon." Mr. Burke for his apostacy from the whig cause, and writing his philippic against the French revolution,...
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The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a ..., Volume 2

Thomas Paine - 1835 - 522 pages
...art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy-victim, expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death In the silence of a dungeon. As Mr. Burke has passed over the whole transaction of the Bastile (and his silence is nothing in his...
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The Life of Thomas Paine, Author of "Common Sense", "Rights of Man", "Age of ...

Gilbert Vale - 1841 - 242 pages
...than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities...government, in opposition to the dogmatical assertions and high-sounding declamation of his antagonist, and concludes V his argument with a comparison between...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 9

Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedy-victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the hilence of a dungeon. — Rights of Man, Pt. 1. 8vo, Sthed. 1 79 1, pp. 26, 27"WE ALL DO FADE AS A...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 4

Douglas Jerrold - 1846 - 606 pages
...of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedyvictim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon." Since the writing of these words, I come unexpectedly to the quotation from Burke, to which they refer...
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The French Revolution, Volumes 1-2

Charles MacFarlane - 1844 - 684 pages
...hogshead of wine j his feelings may be refined and elevated by a bottle." 1 791.1 THOMAS PAINE AND expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery,...sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon."* He said he would refresh Burke's memory with the history of the whole transaction of the capture of...
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Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L ..., Volume 1; Volume 62

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero, or his heroine, 7nust be a tragedy victim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery sliding into death iu the silence of a dungeon." A state prosecution was on foot against him when a French deputation...
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and ..., Volume 1

Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 704 pages
...imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. Accustomed to kiss the aristocratical hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates...misery sliding into death in the silence of a dungeon." A state prosecution was on foot against him when a French deputation called him to France, to sit in...
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Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Thomas Paine - 1856 - 168 pages
...of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him. His hero or his heroine must be a tragedyvictim expiring in show, and not the real prisoner of misery, sliding into death in the silence of a dungpon. Aa Mr. Burke has passed over the whole transaction of the Bastille (and bis silence is nothing...
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