The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Томи 9 – 12C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... Duke of York , the next in succession to the throne , excited the heads and hearts of cool , dispassionate men , and drove those of a less happy temperament into a frenzy . Many even of those who were attached to monarchy and the old ...
... Duke of York , the next in succession to the throne , excited the heads and hearts of cool , dispassionate men , and drove those of a less happy temperament into a frenzy . Many even of those who were attached to monarchy and the old ...
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... Duke of Buckingham is of the same party , and believes himself at the head , & c . . . The service which I may draw from Mr. Sidney does not appear , for his connections are with obscure and concealed persons ; but he is intimate with ...
... Duke of Buckingham is of the same party , and believes himself at the head , & c . . . The service which I may draw from Mr. Sidney does not appear , for his connections are with obscure and concealed persons ; but he is intimate with ...
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... duke's chamber , the king came and staid an hour or two laughing at Sir W. Petty , who was there about his boat ; and at Gresham College in general : at which poor Petty was , I perceive , at some loss ; but did argue discreetly , and ...
... duke's chamber , the king came and staid an hour or two laughing at Sir W. Petty , who was there about his boat ; and at Gresham College in general : at which poor Petty was , I perceive , at some loss ; but did argue discreetly , and ...
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... Duke's Playhouse , who hath had a child by ... about 1679. She is ( 1680 ) about twenty - one . " . " Of the three sons , John , the first - born , died in infancy . On the 6th of Decem ber , 1688 , within a year after the death of her ...
... Duke's Playhouse , who hath had a child by ... about 1679. She is ( 1680 ) about twenty - one . " . " Of the three sons , John , the first - born , died in infancy . On the 6th of Decem ber , 1688 , within a year after the death of her ...
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... Duke's theatre , in 1690 , was his first work for the public stage . In the same year he set new music to The Tempest , ' as altered by Dryden , which is still heard with delight , and also the Pro- phetess , or Diocletian , ' altered ...
... Duke's theatre , in 1690 , was his first work for the public stage . In the same year he set new music to The Tempest , ' as altered by Dryden , which is still heard with delight , and also the Pro- phetess , or Diocletian , ' altered ...
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Сторінка 27 - The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction. The Whigs applauded every line in which liberty was mentioned, as a satire on the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap, to show that the satire was unfelt.
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Сторінка 36 - was particular in this writer, that when he had taken his resolution or made his plan for what he designed to write, he would walk about a room and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down, and attend to the coherence and grammar of what he dictated.
Сторінка 84 - Newton came from chapel, and had seen what was done, every one thought he would have run mad, he was so troubled thereat that he was not himself for a month after.
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