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" Cato was not so much the wonder of Rome in his days, as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play, yet what the author once said of another may the most properly in the world... "
Characteristic Anecdotes of Men of Learning and Genius: Natives of Great ... - Page 365
by John Watkins - 1808 - 552 pages
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volume 1

Joseph Addison - 1883 - 596 pages
...Britain ill ours ; imd though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought n party play, yet what the author once said of another may the mo.-t properly in the world be applied to him on this oecasion, *Envy itself is dumb, In wondor lost,...
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Addison

William John Courthope - 1884 - 202 pages
...of Rome in his days as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible had been used to make it thought a party play, yet what the author 1 Spence's Anecdotes, p. 151. • Ibid. said of another may the most properly be applied to him on...
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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges and The English ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 pages
...of Home in his days, as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play, yet what...numerous and violent claps of the Whig party on the one side of the theatre were echoed back by the Tories on the other ; while the author sweated behind...
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A Popular Manual of English Literature: Containing Outlines of the ..., Volume 1

Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 pages
...of Rome in his days as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play, yet what...lost, And factions strive who shall applaud him most. When it was first acted, the numerous and violent claps of the Whig party on the one side of the theatre...
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Lectures on the English humourists of the eighteenth century: Mit ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 pages
...of Rome in his days, as he is of Britain in ours; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play , yet what the author once said of another 26) may the most properly in the world be applied to him on this occasion : "'Envy itself is dumb —...
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Roundabout Papers, to which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 pages
...Rome in liis days, as he is of Britain in ours ; and though nil the foolish industry possihle lias been used to make it thought a party play, yet what...properly in the world be applied to him on this occasion : " ' Euvy itself is dumb — in wonder lost ; . And factions strive who shall applaud him most.' "The...
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Addison

William John Courthope - 1886 - 200 pages
...applied to him on this occasion : 'Envy itself is dnmb, in wonder lost, Aud factions strive who Bhall applaud him most !' ' The numerous and violent claps of the Whig party on the one side of the theatre were echoed back by the Tories on the other, while the author sweated behind...
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Complete Works, Volume 4

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 914 pages
...of Rome in his days, as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play, yet what...numerous and violent claps of the Whig party on the one side of the theatre were echoed back by the Tories on the other ; while the author sweated behind...
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Sir Roger de Coverley: Essays from the "Spectator."

Joseph Addison - 1887 - 216 pages
...of Rome in his days, as ho is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible had been used to make it thought a party play, yet what the author said of another may the most properly be applied to him on this occasion : ' Envy itself is dumb, in...
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The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges ; The ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1889 - 554 pages
...of Rome in his days, as he is of Britain in ours ; and though all the foolish industry possible has been used to make it thought a party play, yet what...numerous and violent claps of the Whig party on the one side of the theatre were echoed back by the Tories on the other ; while the author sweated behind...
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