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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... Whitehall - Charles II . - What is a Literary Man ? Charles's Proclamations and Letters - Scientific - An Everlasting Talker - His Contradictions - Charles's Boyhood and Youth - Charles's Good - nature and Toleration - Royal Meals ...
... Whitehall - Charles II . - What is a Literary Man ? Charles's Proclamations and Letters - Scientific - An Everlasting Talker - His Contradictions - Charles's Boyhood and Youth - Charles's Good - nature and Toleration - Royal Meals ...
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... Whitehall . While Charles II . was aping the splendours and ceremonies of royality , his courtiers observed that his own clothes were threadbare ; they perceived that he was dismissing one servant after another , owing to his inability ...
... Whitehall . While Charles II . was aping the splendours and ceremonies of royality , his courtiers observed that his own clothes were threadbare ; they perceived that he was dismissing one servant after another , owing to his inability ...
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... the probable influence of such pastimes . The courtiers of White- hall had neither a Hurlingham nor a Ranelagh , nor a Prince's ; but they had , what was much more to their taste , a Bear Garden . This particular garden 18 ROCHESTER.
... the probable influence of such pastimes . The courtiers of White- hall had neither a Hurlingham nor a Ranelagh , nor a Prince's ; but they had , what was much more to their taste , a Bear Garden . This particular garden 18 ROCHESTER.
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... Whitehall . Con- sidering that that palace was the scene of so much history and romance , it is wonderful how little of it remains and how small the interest taken in its site , now put to other uses . As everybody knows , the ...
... Whitehall . Con- sidering that that palace was the scene of so much history and romance , it is wonderful how little of it remains and how small the interest taken in its site , now put to other uses . As everybody knows , the ...
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... Whitehall besides these " lodgings " . There was a handsome theatre , though Pepys says that it was ill - built for hearing , and that the plays were not so good there as in the public theatres ; its chief attrac- tion being the display ...
... Whitehall besides these " lodgings " . There was a handsome theatre , though Pepys says that it was ill - built for hearing , and that the plays were not so good there as in the public theatres ; its chief attrac- tion being the display ...
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