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" He is familiar with the prince only as an agent of vice ; but of this familiarity he is so proud as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of importance to the duke of Lancaster. Yet the man thus corrupt, thus... "
King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part I-II - Page 497
by William Shakespeare - 1773
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 276

1913 - 872 pages
...1766. and insult the defenceless. At once obsequious and malignant, he satirizes in their absence those whom he lives by flattering. He is familiar with the...as an agent of vice; but of this familiarity he is so proud, as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of...
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The British Review: With which is Incorporated the Oxford ..., Volume 1

Richard Johnson Walker - 1913 - 592 pages
...timorous, and insult the defenceless. At once obsequious and malignant, he satirises in their absence those whom he lives by flattering. He is familiar with the...as an agent of vice ; but of this familiarity he is so proud, as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of...
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A Novelist on Novels

Walter Lionel George - 1918 - 262 pages
...timorous, and insult the defenceless. At once obsequious and malignant, he satirises in their absence those whom he lives by flattering. He is familiar with the...as an agent of vice; but of this familiarity he is so proud, as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of...
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Literary Chapters

W. L. George - 1918 - 296 pages
...1765. 152 obsequious and malignant, he satirises in their absence those whom he lives by nattering. He is familiar with the prince only as an agent of vice ; but of this familiarity he is so proud, as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of...
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Benedetto Croce's Aesthetic Applied to Literary Criticism

K. M. Khadye - 1922 - 84 pages
...timorous and insult the defenseless. At once obsequious and malignant he satirises in their absence those whom he lives by flattering. He is familiar with the...as an agent of vice but of this familiarity he is so proud as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of importance...
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Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

David Nichol Smith - 1928 - 108 pages
...timorous and insult the defenceless. At once obsequious and malignant, he satirises in their absence those whom he lives by flattering. He is familiar with the...as an agent of vice, but of this familiarity he is so proud as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of importance...
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William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, Volume 5

Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...timorous and insult the defenceless. At once obsequious and malignant, he satirises in their absence those whom he lives by flattering. He is familiar with the...as an agent of vice, but of this familiarity he is so proud as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of importance...
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Henry V

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 564 pages
...timorous and insult the defenceless. At once obsequious and malignant, he satirizes in their absence those whom he lives by flattering. He is familiar with the...as an agent of vice, but of this familiarity he is so proud as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of importance...
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Henry IV, Part 1

William Shakespeare - 2002 - 186 pages
...defenceless. At once obsequious and malignant, he satirizes in their absence those whom he lives by nattering. He is familiar with the Prince only as an agent of vice, but of this familiarity he is so proud as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of importance...
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The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose

Brian Vickers - 2005 - 472 pages
...timorous and insult the defenceless. At once obsequious and malignant, he satirises in their absence those whom he lives by flattering. He is familiar with the...as an agent of vice, but of this familiarity he is so proud as not only to be supercilious and haughty with common men, but to think his interest of importance...
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