mordace

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The academy was put to great trouble, and the Anti-Cruscans were often on the point of annulling this supremacy; _una mordace scritura_ was applied to one of these literary canons; and in a letter of those times the following paragraph appears: -- "Pescetti is preparing to give a second answer to

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807