Devereux — Volume 02. Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон

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Thank Heaven, for the honour of literature, /nous avons change tout cela!—ED.

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An antiquated word in use for puppet-shows.

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See "Spectator," No. 14, for a letter from this unfortunate under-sexton.

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Whig ladies patched on one side of the cheek, Tories on the other.

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Lord Bolingbroke tells us that it was the main end of Harley's administration to marry his son to this lady. Thus is the fate of nations a bundle made up of a thousand little private schemes.

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In the "Arcadia," that museum of oddities and beauties.

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"Tatler."

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This seems to corroborate the suspicion entertained of the identity of

Colonel Cleland with the Will Honeycomb of the "Spectator."

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"The Greek wants an ablative, the Italians a dative, I a nominative."