delations

And as the abominable system of _delations_ made every chance expression penal, and found treason to the present in all praise of the past, the only resource open to men of letters was to suppress every expression of feeling, and, by silent brooding, to keep passion at white heat, so that when it speaks at last it speaks with the concentrated intensity of a Juvenal or a

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

He thought that secret enemies were in the habit of forwarding delations against him to Rome.

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

Let none, except the authors themselves, be apprehensive of _delations_, which, as a subject, I have always condemned, and, as a prince, will severely punish.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765

III. iii.123 (435,4) They are close delations working from the heart,/

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746

The old copies uniformly give, _close dilations_, except that the earlier quarto has _close denotements_; which was the author's first expression, afterwards changed by him, not to _cold dilations_, for _cold_ is read in no ancient copy; nor, I believe, to _close dilations_, but to _close delations_; to _occult_ and _secret accusations, working_ involuntarily

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746

Let none, except the authors themselves, be apprehensive of delations, 37 which, as a subject, I have always condemned, and, as a prince, will severely punish.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

494 Bumonriez to the Primary AJfemblies of Front*. .. doty* hii delations, and his rights; when, after having been ratneJ in his fortiine by them, he had it no longer in his power to keep them in his pay.

The Monthly Review 1795