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... . EDITED BY EDWARD ARBER F.S.A. ETC. LATE EXAMINER IN ENGLISH CC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WESTMINSTER A. CONSTABLE AND CO . 1895 C.R.C. -1 IN FOUNDATIONS 3 L CONTENTS LIFE and TIMES of GEORGE.
... . EDITED BY EDWARD ARBER F.S.A. ETC. LATE EXAMINER IN ENGLISH CC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON WESTMINSTER A. CONSTABLE AND CO . 1895 C.R.C. -1 IN FOUNDATIONS 3 L CONTENTS LIFE and TIMES of GEORGE.
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... London , a 4to Catalogue of the Curious Collection of Pictures of George Villiers , Duke of Buckingham . The Catalogue is prefaced by the following ADVERTISEMENT . WE proceed to gratify the curiosity of the public with some other lists ...
... London , a 4to Catalogue of the Curious Collection of Pictures of George Villiers , Duke of Buckingham . The Catalogue is prefaced by the following ADVERTISEMENT . WE proceed to gratify the curiosity of the public with some other lists ...
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... London and Essex , and these were the last efforts of the dying cause . The duke and brother , my lord Francis , in the heat of their courage , engaged with the earl of Holland ; and were the first that took the field about Rygate in ...
... London and Essex , and these were the last efforts of the dying cause . The duke and brother , my lord Francis , in the heat of their courage , engaged with the earl of Holland ; and were the first that took the field about Rygate in ...
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... London , which was also the duke's . The duke heard how kind and generous my lord Fairfax was to the countess of Derby , in paying all the rents of the Isle of Man , which the par- liament had also assigned to him for his arrears , into ...
... London , which was also the duke's . The duke heard how kind and generous my lord Fairfax was to the countess of Derby , in paying all the rents of the Isle of Man , which the par- liament had also assigned to him for his arrears , into ...
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... London ; where we arrived the day month that we left it . He was sent ambassador into France , where he was highly carressed by the king , and many of the nobility his old acquaintance . This was before the other into Holland . At his ...
... London ; where we arrived the day month that we left it . He was sent ambassador into France , where he was highly carressed by the king , and many of the nobility his old acquaintance . This was before the other into Holland . At his ...
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Page 12 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Page 12 - He laughed himself from court; then sought relief By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief; For, spite of him, the weight of business fell On Absalom, and wise Achitophel ; Thus, wicked but in will, of means bereft, He left not faction, but of that was left.
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Page 134 - With sense that might be understood with ease; They every scene with so much wit did store That who brought any in, went out with more: But this new way of wit does so surprise, Men lose their wits in wond'ring where it lies.
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