A guide to English literature. 3. From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Penguin Books, 1956 |
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... Court connexions , was unusual in spending between four and six months a year in London , but his diary gives a typical round of pleasures . Besides swimming and boating on the Thames , dicing and card - playing and going a - maying in ...
... Court connexions , was unusual in spending between four and six months a year in London , but his diary gives a typical round of pleasures . Besides swimming and boating on the Thames , dicing and card - playing and going a - maying in ...
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... Court and get some office as being the only rising way ' . same - The Court took its tone from the personal character and tastes of the sovereign . In this period , therefore , the machinery remained the the royal household with its ...
... Court and get some office as being the only rising way ' . same - The Court took its tone from the personal character and tastes of the sovereign . In this period , therefore , the machinery remained the the royal household with its ...
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... Court life had been stylized in the elaborate ritual of the cult of the Virgin Queen . Under her successor nothing quite took the place of this , with all its associated poetry of idealistic love ; James I's Court seems to have lost ...
... Court life had been stylized in the elaborate ritual of the cult of the Virgin Queen . Under her successor nothing quite took the place of this , with all its associated poetry of idealistic love ; James I's Court seems to have lost ...
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