The Quarterly Review, Volume 139William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1875 |
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... Court . There remained close to him only one of the conspicuous pillars of Elizabeth's state ; and Salisbury , shrewd statesman as he was , had been the meanest in face and figure , the most prosaic in fancy , of the Elizabethan ...
... Court . There remained close to him only one of the conspicuous pillars of Elizabeth's state ; and Salisbury , shrewd statesman as he was , had been the meanest in face and figure , the most prosaic in fancy , of the Elizabethan ...
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... Court , and , in reigns such as that of James , are peculiarly sensitive and respon- sive to Royal demeanour and Royal manners . In those about the monarch , who tried to suit themselves to him , who belonged not to his literary and ...
... Court , and , in reigns such as that of James , are peculiarly sensitive and respon- sive to Royal demeanour and Royal manners . In those about the monarch , who tried to suit themselves to him , who belonged not to his literary and ...
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... Courts , in which , at this epoch , the influences of Italian and Spanish maxims are unusually prominent . In a ... Court , not the Council . The favourite's position , his behaviour in his place , his founda- tion in his master's ...
... Courts , in which , at this epoch , the influences of Italian and Spanish maxims are unusually prominent . In a ... Court , not the Council . The favourite's position , his behaviour in his place , his founda- tion in his master's ...
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... Court of the Emperor Jehanghir at Agra , to further the English East India Company , yet in its first infancy , —it was established in the first year of the century ; -after so many commercial and diplomatic missions he had been sent as ...
... Court of the Emperor Jehanghir at Agra , to further the English East India Company , yet in its first infancy , —it was established in the first year of the century ; -after so many commercial and diplomatic missions he had been sent as ...
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... Court and the highest aristo- cracy , to join the Catholic communion : his own light - minded . Queen had coquetted with Romanism , though she died a sincere Protestant . The second consideration was the certainty , the proofs of which ...
... Court and the highest aristo- cracy , to join the Catholic communion : his own light - minded . Queen had coquetted with Romanism , though she died a sincere Protestant . The second consideration was the certainty , the proofs of which ...
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