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... Earl of Surrey 90 VL Other Writers of the Second Era .. 94 ... THIRD ERA . FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH IN 1558 A.D. TO THE SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. I. The Plays and Players of Old Eng- VIII . Our English Bible .... 135 ...
... Earl of Surrey 90 VL Other Writers of the Second Era .. 94 ... THIRD ERA . FROM THE ACCESSION OF ELIZABETH IN 1558 A.D. TO THE SHUTTING OF THE THEATRES IN 1648 A.D. I. The Plays and Players of Old Eng- VIII . Our English Bible .... 135 ...
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... Earl Marshal of England stood by his side ; for Lancaster and Percy loved and honoured the brave Oxford Doctor . The storm passed harmless by . A dispute which rose between Lancaster and Bishop Court- ney as to whether the accused ...
... Earl Marshal of England stood by his side ; for Lancaster and Percy loved and honoured the brave Oxford Doctor . The storm passed harmless by . A dispute which rose between Lancaster and Bishop Court- ney as to whether the accused ...
Page 90
... EARL OF SURREY . Born about 1516 A.D .......... Beheaded 1547 A.D. Surrey's fame . Early life . Troubles . Trial and death . English metre . Geraldine . Eneid in blank verse . Illustrative extracts . For two reasons the brilliant but ...
... EARL OF SURREY . Born about 1516 A.D .......... Beheaded 1547 A.D. Surrey's fame . Early life . Troubles . Trial and death . English metre . Geraldine . Eneid in blank verse . Illustrative extracts . For two reasons the brilliant but ...
Page 91
... Earl of Hertford , the head of the Seymours , was a secret friend of the Reformation . The grand aim of Hertford was to secure the protectorship of his young nephew Prince Edward when the old king was dead . Surrey and his father ...
... Earl of Hertford , the head of the Seymours , was a secret friend of the Reformation . The grand aim of Hertford was to secure the protectorship of his young nephew Prince Edward when the old king was dead . Surrey and his father ...
Page 92
... Earl of Kildare . If this be so , Geraldine was only a girl of thirteen when the poet , already married to Frances Vere for six years , sang of her beauty and her virtue . It is no unlikely thing that Surrey , an instinctive lover of ...
... Earl of Kildare . If this be so , Geraldine was only a girl of thirteen when the poet , already married to Frances Vere for six years , sang of her beauty and her virtue . It is no unlikely thing that Surrey , an instinctive lover of ...
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