The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsOxford University Press, 1907 - 527 pages |
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Page 93
... royal favourite , Diana of Poictiers , seems a strange one to have been given to the lady already christened by so poetical an appellation as Rosamond , and so different in her reputation from the chaste goddess . We should , for our ...
... royal favourite , Diana of Poictiers , seems a strange one to have been given to the lady already christened by so poetical an appellation as Rosamond , and so different in her reputation from the chaste goddess . We should , for our ...
Page 251
... Royal Highness will be so just to me as not to think me capable of so vile a thought . But I am now resolved , and do faithfully engage myself , that if it shall please the King to pardon me , and if your Royal Highness will interpose ...
... Royal Highness will be so just to me as not to think me capable of so vile a thought . But I am now resolved , and do faithfully engage myself , that if it shall please the King to pardon me , and if your Royal Highness will interpose ...
Page 450
... royal mouth : the round flower hangs its head ; it lays its dead neck on the earth ; and in its room , is a loathed weed . Wolsey , however , did not grow to be what he was with the indolence of a flower . He began his career with as ...
... royal mouth : the round flower hangs its head ; it lays its dead neck on the earth ; and in its room , is a loathed weed . Wolsey , however , did not grow to be what he was with the indolence of a flower . He began his career with as ...
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