[30] Thus under the guns of our Navy was quiet maintained, while Baez, like another usurper, exclaimed, “Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on!”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 19 (of 20) by Charles Sumner
The lady in Calderon, for instance, if she is not Beatriz will be Leonor, and under either name so superlatively beautiful, young, chaste, eloquent, devoted, and resourceful, as to be indistinguishable from her namesakes in the other plays.
— from Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies by George Santayana
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