 | David Bromwich - 1999 - 484 sider
...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"; 7 and, on the verge of the trial for libel that soon followed, addressing the judge, Lord Ellenborough,... | |
 | Andrew Motion - 1999 - 702 sider
...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... | |
 | John Clarke, Jasper Godwin Ridley - 2000 - 126 sider
...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... | |
 | Matt Richardson - 2001 - 336 sider
...radical journal the Examiner, as "a corpulent gentleman of fifty" and "...a man who has just closed half a century without one single claim on the 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... | |
 | Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - 2004 - 332 sider
...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! (Selected Writings, I: 2.2.1) It was the extremity of this diatribe that enabled the government, after... | |
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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... 
