Rochester and other literary rakes of the court of Charles ii, by the author of 'The life of sir Kenelm Digby'. |
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... England had been beheaded : meanwhile the Com- monwealth had ruled the country with a strait- lacedness hitherto unknown to it , and a strictness as unnatural as it was unwholesome had immediately followed the inevitable laxity of civil ...
... England had been beheaded : meanwhile the Com- monwealth had ruled the country with a strait- lacedness hitherto unknown to it , and a strictness as unnatural as it was unwholesome had immediately followed the inevitable laxity of civil ...
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... England , or more especially Scotland , visited him , he would enjoin his courtiers to hurriedly throw on a cloak of spurious piety . " We are all commanded , " wrote one of them on such an occasion , " to be plaguy godly . " In courts ...
... England , or more especially Scotland , visited him , he would enjoin his courtiers to hurriedly throw on a cloak of spurious piety . " We are all commanded , " wrote one of them on such an occasion , " to be plaguy godly . " In courts ...
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... England to a Frenchman in France . The writer says that " that " persons of quality esteemed it a piece of wit to make a man drunk " ; and that after dinner the conversation was " heavy , dull and insig- nificant . . . loud , querulous ...
... England to a Frenchman in France . The writer says that " that " persons of quality esteemed it a piece of wit to make a man drunk " ; and that after dinner the conversation was " heavy , dull and insig- nificant . . . loud , querulous ...
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... England were concerned , and that author was Ovid . Rochester , Scrope , and the other literary rakes , with poets of far higher calibre , including even John Dryden , and , a little later , Pope , Congreve and Addison , vied with one ...
... England were concerned , and that author was Ovid . Rochester , Scrope , and the other literary rakes , with poets of far higher calibre , including even John Dryden , and , a little later , Pope , Congreve and Addison , vied with one ...
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... England . It failed : not because the cruelty of the entertainment shocked the spectators : quite the contrary ; but because the bull did not hurt anybody . " Out then springs a nimble Portu- who on foot attacks the bull , vaults upon ...
... England . It failed : not because the cruelty of the entertainment shocked the spectators : quite the contrary ; but because the bull did not hurt anybody . " Out then springs a nimble Portu- who on foot attacks the bull , vaults upon ...
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