The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.
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By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.
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The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
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What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries.
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Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
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Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil.
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