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96 friends were powerful and Essex neutral ( “ he gives it no opposition " ) . Weary of a life so subject to caprice , with a mistress sick in mind and body and lost to her old human kindness , Essex was dreaming of what Ralegh was ...
96 friends were powerful and Essex neutral ( “ he gives it no opposition " ) . Weary of a life so subject to caprice , with a mistress sick in mind and body and lost to her old human kindness , Essex was dreaming of what Ralegh was ...
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Essex was courteously but plainly reminded that others besides himself had to consider what was known as " honour . " The defense was too strong to gainsay . Essex seemed to accept it , and visited his Rear - Admiral .
Essex was courteously but plainly reminded that others besides himself had to consider what was known as " honour . " The defense was too strong to gainsay . Essex seemed to accept it , and visited his Rear - Admiral .
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Talk in England buzzed of the rancor between the Lord General and his Rear - Admiral ; many heard the opinion which Sir William Monson voices in his account , that if Essex , who was “ by nature timorous and flexible , had not feared ...
Talk in England buzzed of the rancor between the Lord General and his Rear - Admiral ; many heard the opinion which Sir William Monson voices in his account , that if Essex , who was “ by nature timorous and flexible , had not feared ...
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| Title | Sir Walter Ralegh, Last of the Elizabethans |
| Author | Edward John Thompson |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Jul 2010 |
| Length | 416 pages |
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