The Literary Women of England: Including a Biographical Epitome of All the Most Eminent to the Year 1700; and Sketches of the Poetesses to the Year 1850; with Extracts from Their Works, and Critical RemarksSaunders, Otley, 1861 - 564 pages |
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... beauty , and figured advantageously in all the Court masques and pageants of her day . Anne Boleyn was born in or about the year 1499 , at her father's seat , Blickling Hall , in Norfolk , where she was carefully brought up with her ...
... beauty , and figured advantageously in all the Court masques and pageants of her day . Anne Boleyn was born in or about the year 1499 , at her father's seat , Blickling Hall , in Norfolk , where she was carefully brought up with her ...
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... beauty so angelic could belong to flesh and blood . Granger , who gives this anecdote , describes thirty - two engravings , from por- traits by Janet , Zucchero , Oliver , Vander Werff , and other artists . The remarkable resemblance of ...
... beauty so angelic could belong to flesh and blood . Granger , who gives this anecdote , describes thirty - two engravings , from por- traits by Janet , Zucchero , Oliver , Vander Werff , and other artists . The remarkable resemblance of ...
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... beauty : - " Death ! ere thou hast killed another , Fair , and learned , and good as she , Time shall throw a dart at thee . " Granger mentions two engravings of her ; in one of them she is represented with a Psalter in her hand ...
... beauty : - " Death ! ere thou hast killed another , Fair , and learned , and good as she , Time shall throw a dart at thee . " Granger mentions two engravings of her ; in one of them she is represented with a Psalter in her hand ...
Page 82
... beauty , accom- plishments , domestic virtues , and deep piety were so thoroughly appreciated by her excellent husband , that he ordered an inscription to be placed over his own grave recording that he " enjoyed almost twenty - two ...
... beauty , accom- plishments , domestic virtues , and deep piety were so thoroughly appreciated by her excellent husband , that he ordered an inscription to be placed over his own grave recording that he " enjoyed almost twenty - two ...
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... beauty , accomplishments , and piety ; and of her literary productions , he says in the third stanza : - “ The certain proofs of our Orinda's wit In her own lasting characters are writ , And they will long my praise of them survive ...
... beauty , accomplishments , and piety ; and of her literary productions , he says in the third stanza : - “ The certain proofs of our Orinda's wit In her own lasting characters are writ , And they will long my praise of them survive ...
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