So Carlyle called Robespierre in his French Revolution.
“The song is a short one, and may perhaps serve to qualify our judgment of the ‘sea-green incorruptible.ʹ”—Notes and Queries, September 19th, 1891, p. 226.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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