Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680Routledge and Paul, 1962 - 246 pages |
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... occasions of doing it . there have been many things past since I writt last to your Lasp wee have had many reports of ... occasion of service to the King without offering my self , so I desired & obtained leave of my La Sandwich to goe ...
... occasions of doing it . there have been many things past since I writt last to your Lasp wee have had many reports of ... occasion of service to the King without offering my self , so I desired & obtained leave of my La Sandwich to goe ...
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... occasion when neither the King nor Harry Savile was present , as they were both at sea in the yacht Greyhound . The scene was the Great Privy Garden at Whitehall , where the learned Jesuit Franciscus Linus had con- structed an elaborate ...
... occasion when neither the King nor Harry Savile was present , as they were both at sea in the yacht Greyhound . The scene was the Great Privy Garden at Whitehall , where the learned Jesuit Franciscus Linus had con- structed an elaborate ...
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... occasion of shortening his days , which was , that sometimes he could not have a stool for three weeks or a month together . Which distemper his lordship told him was a very great occasion of that warmth and heat he always expressed ...
... occasion of shortening his days , which was , that sometimes he could not have a stool for three weeks or a month together . Which distemper his lordship told him was a very great occasion of that warmth and heat he always expressed ...
Contents
Two THE CLIMATE OF OPINION | 22 |
Three VERY ACCEPTABLE IN A COURT | 32 |
Four THE UTOPIA OF GALLANTRY | 60 |
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