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The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1

Note 61 — I.

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'The laurelled majesty,' &c.:—A flying reference to a grand expression—majestas laurea frontis—which occurs in a Latin supplement to the Pharsalia by May, an English poet, contemporary with the latter days of Shakspere.

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