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“ Robert Cecil , awkward and deformed , was in no danger ” io of being either . He dazzled nobody , but won and kept success by a scrupulous avoidance of risk , and by a steady undeviating mediocrity which was his by gift of nature .
“ Robert Cecil , awkward and deformed , was in no danger ” io of being either . He dazzled nobody , but won and kept success by a scrupulous avoidance of risk , and by a steady undeviating mediocrity which was his by gift of nature .
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... when the Earl of Pembroke and Mary Fitton ( posterity's favorite candidate for the rôle of Shakespeare's “ Dark Lady ” ) were detected in an intrigue which ( unlike Ralegh's and Miss Throckmorton's ) did not end in marriage , Robert ...
... when the Earl of Pembroke and Mary Fitton ( posterity's favorite candidate for the rôle of Shakespeare's “ Dark Lady ” ) were detected in an intrigue which ( unlike Ralegh's and Miss Throckmorton's ) did not end in marriage , Robert ...
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Cecil , Algernon , Life of Robert Cecil , First Earl of Salisbury ( 1915 ) . Cecil MSS . , Historical MSS . Commission , vols . 4 , 6 , 7 . Chamberlain , John , Letters by . . . during the Reign of Elizabeth ( Camden Society , 1861 ) .
Cecil , Algernon , Life of Robert Cecil , First Earl of Salisbury ( 1915 ) . Cecil MSS . , Historical MSS . Commission , vols . 4 , 6 , 7 . Chamberlain , John , Letters by . . . during the Reign of Elizabeth ( Camden Society , 1861 ) .
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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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