Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Festus” in chapter 26 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book:
...riticised them at home for the same reason.
I shall abuse my own country, he said, so long as I think it is worth saving.
When that hope is gone, I shall praise it.
In the once famous poem of Festus , recalled lately to memory by its fiftieth anniversary, there is a fine passage about the uselessness of indiscriminate censure:—
The worst way to improve the world Is to condemn it. Men ...
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| † | Festus | 48 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| Philip Festus | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
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