Constant Delights: Rakes, Rogues, and Scandal in Restoration EnglandA look - from rather a jaunty angle - at one of the most remarkable and fashion-conscious periods in English history. Peopled with names such as Pope, Pepys, Milton, Dryden, Halley, Purcell, Bunyan, Wren, Lely and Kneller, the reign of Charles II was a time of innovation, beauty - and debauchery. |
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... SIR CHARLES SEDLEY - A HAPPY TALENT For songs and verses mannerly obscene , That can stir nature up by springs unseen , And without forcing blushes , warm the Queen Sedley has that prevailing gentle art , That can with a resistless ...
... SIR CHARLES SEDLEY - A HAPPY TALENT For songs and verses mannerly obscene , That can stir nature up by springs unseen , And without forcing blushes , warm the Queen Sedley has that prevailing gentle art , That can with a resistless ...
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... Sir Charles mentioning it to a Friend , ' Well , says he , I am even with ... Sedley discussed the business of the house of commons : ... this day we went ... Sir Charles Sedleys . Records show that Sedley's only son was buried in St ...
... Sir Charles mentioning it to a Friend , ' Well , says he , I am even with ... Sedley discussed the business of the house of commons : ... this day we went ... Sir Charles Sedleys . Records show that Sedley's only son was buried in St ...
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... Sir Charles Sedley , p . 77 Veith , D , The Complete Poems of John Wilmot , Earl of Rochester , p . 126 Stowe MS 969 ... Sir Charles Sedley , Bart , with Memoirs of the Author's Life by an Eminent Hand , Briscoe , London , 1722 ; Pinto ...
... Sir Charles Sedley , p . 77 Veith , D , The Complete Poems of John Wilmot , Earl of Rochester , p . 126 Stowe MS 969 ... Sir Charles Sedley , Bart , with Memoirs of the Author's Life by an Eminent Hand , Briscoe , London , 1722 ; Pinto ...
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an Everyday Story of Fucksters | 53 |
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