The Wits and Beaux of SocietyJ. Hogg, 1860 - 580 pages |
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... Poor Queen Caroline ! -Nocturnal Diversions of Maids of Honour.- Neighbour George's Orange Chest . - Mary Lepel , Lady Hervey . - Rivalry.- Hervey's Intimacy with Lady Mary . - Relaxations of the Royal Household . Bacon's Opinion of ...
... Poor Queen Caroline ! -Nocturnal Diversions of Maids of Honour.- Neighbour George's Orange Chest . - Mary Lepel , Lady Hervey . - Rivalry.- Hervey's Intimacy with Lady Mary . - Relaxations of the Royal Household . Bacon's Opinion of ...
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... Poor Chatterton - Walpole's Concern with Chatterton . - Walpole in Paris . - Anecdote of Madame Geoffrin .- ' Who's that Mr. Walpole ? -The Miss Berrys . - Horace's Two Straw Berries .'- Tapping a New Reign . The Sign of the Gothic ...
... Poor Chatterton - Walpole's Concern with Chatterton . - Walpole in Paris . - Anecdote of Madame Geoffrin .- ' Who's that Mr. Walpole ? -The Miss Berrys . - Horace's Two Straw Berries .'- Tapping a New Reign . The Sign of the Gothic ...
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... Poor Mary Fairfax .-- Villiers in the Tower . - Abraham Cowley , the Poet . - The Greatest Ornament of Whitehall.- Buckingham's Wit and Beauty . - Flecknoe's Opinion of him . - His Duel with the Earl of Shrewsbury . - Villiers as a Poet ...
... Poor Mary Fairfax .-- Villiers in the Tower . - Abraham Cowley , the Poet . - The Greatest Ornament of Whitehall.- Buckingham's Wit and Beauty . - Flecknoe's Opinion of him . - His Duel with the Earl of Shrewsbury . - Villiers as a Poet ...
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... poor that the people went into the rooms before I went away , to see if I had not stolen something or other . ' With what reverence and sympathy did our Pepys listen ; but he was forced to hurry off to get Lord Berkeley a bed ; and with ...
... poor that the people went into the rooms before I went away , to see if I had not stolen something or other . ' With what reverence and sympathy did our Pepys listen ; but he was forced to hurry off to get Lord Berkeley a bed ; and with ...
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... poor body's pocket ; and , at a Catholic house , how he lay a good while ' in the Priest's Hole , for privacy . ' In all these hairbreadth escapes - of which the king spoke with infinite humour and good feeling - one name was per ...
... poor body's pocket ; and , at a Catholic house , how he lay a good while ' in the Priest's Hole , for privacy . ' In all these hairbreadth escapes - of which the king spoke with infinite humour and good feeling - one name was per ...
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