 your virtue they own as their proper blood, royal as themselves, and over-royal, and the father of the gods. But what rebuke their plain fraternal bearing Casts on the mutual flattery with which authors solace each other, and wound themselves ! These...  Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle - Page 271by Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841Full view - About this book
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...without any admiration your wit, your bounty, your virtue even,—say rather your act of duty, for your virtue they own as their proper blood, royal...not wonder that these men go to see Cromwell, and Christina, and Charles the Second, and James the First, and the Grand Turk. For they are, in their... | |
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