The Quarterly Review, Volume 73John Murray, 1843 |
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Page 80
Louis XV . , then , was his age , for his age was personified in him . Timid with women , the king found in his " petite maison " young girls , humble , simple , natural , with whom he could enter , so to speak , into the common- place ...
Louis XV . , then , was his age , for his age was personified in him . Timid with women , the king found in his " petite maison " young girls , humble , simple , natural , with whom he could enter , so to speak , into the common- place ...
Page 81
... Louis XV . , to punish Paris , withdraws himself altogether to Versailles - a filthier Tiberius to a fairer Capreæ - he throws over him a sentimental gloom , a deli- cate melancholy , a dainty sadness , which he has borrowed from our ...
... Louis XV . , to punish Paris , withdraws himself altogether to Versailles - a filthier Tiberius to a fairer Capreæ - he throws over him a sentimental gloom , a deli- cate melancholy , a dainty sadness , which he has borrowed from our ...
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... Louis XV . That , however , must be a singular standard , by the measure of which the Duc de Cazes is exalted into a great man , and the Duc de Choiseul dwindled into a small man . Nor is it only in a judgment passed upon ministers of ...
... Louis XV . That , however , must be a singular standard , by the measure of which the Duc de Cazes is exalted into a great man , and the Duc de Choiseul dwindled into a small man . Nor is it only in a judgment passed upon ministers of ...
Contents
Vaudois 1842 | 3 |
A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the late William | 27 |
Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of Ame | 113 |
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