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On the old French stage, there were these two eminent characteristics of tragedy: Whatever the subject—if Œdipus, and the Plague raging—there must be a love-tale; and the most impassioned persons most continually dissert.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

She soon recognised his love of nature; and this allowed her to dissert on the subject, at once sublime and inexhaustible, with copiousness worthy of the theme.

From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

They have been well spoken of by two—Southey and Coleridge—of whose most poetical compositions respectively, "Thalaba" and the "Ancient Mariner," in some future volume we may dissert.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

But it was the Empire, not the Church, which was weak in Italy.—See also Natalis Alex, in sec. 8th dissert.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

Against the supposed translation of the whole     shrines of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica into France, see     Muratori, Antichita, &c., dissert.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban