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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... Daughter's Honour is his Worship's Jest . * And she to keep her Father's honour up , Drinks to the Dutch with Orange ... daughter a countess , he helped to make James's daughter a queen . Colyear , about ten years Katherine's ...
... Daughter's Honour is his Worship's Jest . * And she to keep her Father's honour up , Drinks to the Dutch with Orange ... daughter a countess , he helped to make James's daughter a queen . Colyear , about ten years Katherine's ...
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... daughter of Viscount Grandison and Mary Bayning . Edward Hyde thought Grandison a man of ' rare piety ' and ' faultless ' . Not the characteristics he would consider that the honourable man's daughter had inherited . 6 Barbara's first ...
... daughter of Viscount Grandison and Mary Bayning . Edward Hyde thought Grandison a man of ' rare piety ' and ' faultless ' . Not the characteristics he would consider that the honourable man's daughter had inherited . 6 Barbara's first ...
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... daughter , also Susanna , and a second daughter , who died after only eight days keeping the devastated mother from the stage for eight months . She was also pregnant again at the time of her husband's murder , with their third daughter ...
... daughter , also Susanna , and a second daughter , who died after only eight days keeping the devastated mother from the stage for eight months . She was also pregnant again at the time of her husband's murder , with their third daughter ...
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an Everyday Story of Fucksters | 53 |
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