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" I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour : my name, which had been a knightly or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and... "
The Solitudes of Nature and of Man: Or, The Loneliness of Human Life - Page 295
by William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 412 pages
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The Literary Character, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 312 pages
...Italian." On the same page I find the following note : " What was rumoured of me in that language ? If true, I was unfit for England : if false, England was unfit for me: — 'There is a world elsewhere.' I have never regretted for a moment that country, but often that...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poets, English - 1831 - 576 pages
...or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered,...was pursued and breathed upon by the same blight. I crossed the mountains, but it was the same ; so I went a little farther, and settled myself by the...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Authors, English - 1830 - 528 pages
...whispered, and muttered, and murmured, »u true, I was unfit for England ; if false, England «as unlit shidow of the Alps, and by the blue depth of the hie«, I was pursued and breathed upon by the same...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 44

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered,...was pursued and breathed upon by the same blight. I crossed the mountains, but it was the same: so I went a little farther, and settled myself by the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 44

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered,...was pursued and breathed upon by the same blight. I crossed the mountains, but it was the same: so I went a little farther, and settled myself by the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 44

English literature - 1831 - 632 pages
...or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered,...was pursued and breathed upon by the same blight. I crossed the mountains, but it was the same : so I went a little farther, and settled myself by the...
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The Southern Review, Volume 7

1831 - 532 pages
...a noble one since my fathers lii Iped to conquer the kingdom i'or William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered,...blue depth of the lakes, I was pursued and breathed upou by the same blight. 1 crossed the mountains, but was the same; so I went a little further, aud...
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The Southern Review, Volume 7

Southern States - 1831 - 542 pages
...or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered,...the shadow of the Alps, and by the blue depth of the lake-, 1 was pursued and breathed upon by the same blight. 1 crossed the mountains, but was the same;...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - English letters - 1831 - 572 pages
...a noble one since my fathers helped • to conquer the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered,...other countries, in Switzerland, in the shadow of the Л1рв, and by the blue depth of the lakes, I was pursued and breathed upon by the same blight. I...
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Southern Review, Volume 7

1831 - 550 pages
...or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquor the kingdom for William the Norman, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered,...unfit for England ; if false, England was unfit for ine. I withdrew : but this was not enough. In other countries, in Switzerland, in the shadow of the...
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