Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680Routledge and Paul, 1962 - 246 pages |
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... probably did permanent harm to the child's constitution . Of the effect on his mind we know little . John Martin must have given him a very good grounding in Latin , and he was certainly able to read the Latin classics with pleasure ...
... probably did permanent harm to the child's constitution . Of the effect on his mind we know little . John Martin must have given him a very good grounding in Latin , and he was certainly able to read the Latin classics with pleasure ...
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... probably happened on 19 June . On that day we know that he made a kind of public recantation , calling in all his servants , including even the ' piggard boy ' , or lad who looked after the swine.i Before them all he read and signed a ...
... probably happened on 19 June . On that day we know that he made a kind of public recantation , calling in all his servants , including even the ' piggard boy ' , or lad who looked after the swine.i Before them all he read and signed a ...
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... probably by his own order , no inscription or monument was placed on his tomb . Like Byron , Rochester left behind him Memoirs in manuscript which filled the surviving members of his family with such horror that they destroyed them ...
... probably by his own order , no inscription or monument was placed on his tomb . Like Byron , Rochester left behind him Memoirs in manuscript which filled the surviving members of his family with such horror that they destroyed them ...
Contents
Two THE CLIMATE OF OPINION | 22 |
Three VERY ACCEPTABLE IN A COURT | 32 |
Four THE UTOPIA OF GALLANTRY | 60 |
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