Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680Routledge and Paul, 1962 - 246 pages |
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... speak in the House of Peers with general approbation'.1 Against this testimony can be set a not very well authenticated tradition that Rochester rose to speak in the House on only one occasion . He is said to have begun with the ...
... speak in the House of Peers with general approbation'.1 Against this testimony can be set a not very well authenticated tradition that Rochester rose to speak in the House on only one occasion . He is said to have begun with the ...
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... speak for long at a time , but for a half or a quarter of an hour would talk with a ' Vivacity in his Discourse that was extraordinary in all things like himself ' . He often sent for his children , the boy Charles now ten years old and ...
... speak for long at a time , but for a half or a quarter of an hour would talk with a ' Vivacity in his Discourse that was extraordinary in all things like himself ' . He often sent for his children , the boy Charles now ten years old and ...
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... speaking to the Count Nemours ( Earl of Dorset might be speaking to the Duke VIDAME : He that was the Life , the Soul of Pi Count Rosidore is dead . NEMOURS : Then may we say Wit was and Satyr is a Carcass no I thought his last Debauch ...
... speaking to the Count Nemours ( Earl of Dorset might be speaking to the Duke VIDAME : He that was the Life , the Soul of Pi Count Rosidore is dead . NEMOURS : Then may we say Wit was and Satyr is a Carcass no I thought his last Debauch ...
Contents
Two THE CLIMATE OF OPINION | 22 |
Three VERY ACCEPTABLE IN A COURT | 32 |
Four THE UTOPIA OF GALLANTRY | 60 |
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