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" PRINCE, was a violator of his word, a libertine over head and ears in debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country... "
The Edinburgh Annual Register - Page 199
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 18; Volume 65

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1892 - 718 pages
...ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim...of his country, or the respect of posterity ! ' The times have indeed changed since flattery of so gross and outrageous a nature as drew forth this reproof...
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Romantic Critical Essays

David Bromwich - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 310 pages
...ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity." The article provoked the Tory ministry to prosecute both Hunts on charges of seditious libel, and they...
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Jane Austen the Woman: Some Biographical Insights

George Holbert Tucker - Women and literature - 1995 - 296 pages
...domestic ti&t, the companiea of gamhlers and demireps, a man who hasjust closed half a century without eae single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity," This blast earned Hunt and his brother two-year prison sentences and a fine amounting to several hundred...
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The Young Oxford History of Britain & Ireland

Mike Corbishley - History - 1998 - 420 pages
...king was. in the words of one newspaper, 'over head and heels in debt and disgrace ... a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the gratitude of his country'. In 18an he created a huge public scandal when he tried to divorce bis wife. Caroline. The crowds cheered...
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Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic

David Bromwich - Literary Collections - 1999 - 484 pages
...debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity"; 7 and, on the verge of the trial for libel that soon followed, addressing the judge, Lord Ellenborough,...
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Keats

Andrew Motion - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 702 pages
...debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim...on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity.23 Although the Hunt brothers had previously published several similar articles, they must...
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The Houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

John Clarke, Jasper Godwin Ridley - Great Britain - 2000 - 126 pages
...despiser of domestic ties, the companion of demi-reps, a man who has just closed half a century without a single claim on the gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity.' More than anyone else, the Prince was responsible for the cruel slander that George m spent most of...
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The Royal Book of Lists: An Irreverent Romp Through British Royal History ...

Matt Richardson - Reference - 2001 - 339 pages
...Regent, in his radical journal the Examiner, as "a corpulent gentleman of fifty" and "...a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity." The prince was not averse to dishing it out a little on occasion, however: one of 766 his favourite gags...
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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830

Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 332 pages
...debt and disgrace, a despiser of domestic ties, the companion of gamblers and demireps, a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim...gratitude of his country or the respect of posterity! (Selected Writings, I: 2.2.1) It was the extremity of this diatribe that enabled the government, after...
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