Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680Routledge and Paul, 1962 - 246 pages |
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... verses of Whitehall we can almost hear his slightly drunken voice as he told stories of the days of Cromwell to the son of Henry Wilmot . From a copy of verses sent by Whitehall to the Earl some years later we learn that he used to lend ...
... verses of Whitehall we can almost hear his slightly drunken voice as he told stories of the days of Cromwell to the son of Henry Wilmot . From a copy of verses sent by Whitehall to the Earl some years later we learn that he used to lend ...
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... verses , but there is a vigour and a perspicuity too ( in spite of shaky grammar ) in the last couplets , which already presages a new force in English poetry . The other surviving undergraduate verses ascribed to Rochester are a Latin ...
... verses , but there is a vigour and a perspicuity too ( in spite of shaky grammar ) in the last couplets , which already presages a new force in English poetry . The other surviving undergraduate verses ascribed to Rochester are a Latin ...
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... verses ' 1L.P.C. , 7 . 4 G.E.C. XI , 49 . 2 Prinz , 239 ; G.E.C. , XI , 49 . 3 Luttrell , I , 399 . 5 H.R.C. , IX , 79. Lady Anne's beauty and intelligence are celebrated in a poem on her marriage by ' Placidia ' printed in P.O.A.S. ...
... verses ' 1L.P.C. , 7 . 4 G.E.C. XI , 49 . 2 Prinz , 239 ; G.E.C. , XI , 49 . 3 Luttrell , I , 399 . 5 H.R.C. , IX , 79. Lady Anne's beauty and intelligence are celebrated in a poem on her marriage by ' Placidia ' printed in P.O.A.S. ...
Contents
Two THE CLIMATE OF OPINION | 22 |
Three VERY ACCEPTABLE IN A COURT | 32 |
Four THE UTOPIA OF GALLANTRY | 60 |
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