A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period ...W. Strahan, 1784 - Biography |
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... said to her at the fame time , " Madam , I have made you wait a long time ; but you " have fo many friends , that I was refolved to have this B6 merit with you on my own account , ' Voltaire tells us , A he Louis XIV . C. 26 . he had ...
... said to her at the fame time , " Madam , I have made you wait a long time ; but you " have fo many friends , that I was refolved to have this B6 merit with you on my own account , ' Voltaire tells us , A he Louis XIV . C. 26 . he had ...
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... said , She wrote to the king immediately ; her letters charmed him , and this was the origin of her fortune ; her own perfonal merit effected all the reft . The king bought her the lands of Maintenon in 1679 , which was the only eftate ...
... said , She wrote to the king immediately ; her letters charmed him , and this was the origin of her fortune ; her own perfonal merit effected all the reft . The king bought her the lands of Maintenon in 1679 , which was the only eftate ...
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... said , it should " difturb her following conceptions . What a picture of " foolish nobility was this ftately poetic couple , retired to their own little domain , and intoxicating one another " with circumftantial flattery , on what was ...
... said , it should " difturb her following conceptions . What a picture of " foolish nobility was this ftately poetic couple , retired to their own little domain , and intoxicating one another " with circumftantial flattery , on what was ...
Page 121
... said , " no news in England , to see young " damfels in noble houses , and in the courts of princes , " inftead of cards , and other inftruments of idle trifling , to " have continually in their hands either Pfalms , Homilies , " and ...
... said , " no news in England , to see young " damfels in noble houses , and in the courts of princes , " inftead of cards , and other inftruments of idle trifling , to " have continually in their hands either Pfalms , Homilies , " and ...
Page 148
... said cardinal for giv- ing him nothing . He had the fame fuccefs at the court of Anne of Auftria ; and , after a world of disappointments , he retired to his province , where he died in 1646. He wrote Songs , Odes , Epigrams , a Poem ...
... said cardinal for giv- ing him nothing . He had the fame fuccefs at the court of Anne of Auftria ; and , after a world of disappointments , he retired to his province , where he died in 1646. He wrote Songs , Odes , Epigrams , a Poem ...
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