The Four Georges: The English Humorists of the Eighteenth CenturySmith, Elder and Company, 1869 - 362 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... poor wretches had it ; with their bodies and very blood when they had none ; being sold in thousands by their lords and masters , who gaily dealt in soldiers , staked a regiment upon the red at the gambling - table ; swapped a battalion ...
... poor wretches had it ; with their bodies and very blood when they had none ; being sold in thousands by their lords and masters , who gaily dealt in soldiers , staked a regiment upon the red at the gambling - table ; swapped a battalion ...
Pagina 9
... poor Frederick , the winter king of Bohemia . The other daughters of lovely , unhappy Elizabeth Stuart went off into the Catholic Church ; this one , luckily for her family , remained , I cannot say faithful to the Reformed Religion ...
... poor Frederick , the winter king of Bohemia . The other daughters of lovely , unhappy Elizabeth Stuart went off into the Catholic Church ; this one , luckily for her family , remained , I cannot say faithful to the Reformed Religion ...
Pagina 11
... Poor Gus is thrust out , and his father will give him no more keep . I laugh in the day , and cry all night about it ; for I am a fool with my children . " Three of the six died fighting against Turks , Tartars , Frenchmen . One of them ...
... Poor Gus is thrust out , and his father will give him no more keep . I laugh in the day , and cry all night about it ; for I am a fool with my children . " Three of the six died fighting against Turks , Tartars , Frenchmen . One of them ...
Pagina 18
... as that ? With this unlucky heart to bestowed it on Philip of Königsmarck , than whom a greater scamp . compact in such a marriage dispose of , the poor creature does not walk the history of the seventeenth century . 18 THE FOUR GEORGES .
... as that ? With this unlucky heart to bestowed it on Philip of Königsmarck , than whom a greater scamp . compact in such a marriage dispose of , the poor creature does not walk the history of the seventeenth century . 18 THE FOUR GEORGES .
Pagina 20
... poor Sophia Dorothea , with her coquetry and her wrongs , and her passionate attachment to her scamp of a lover , and her wild impru- dences , and her mad artifices , and her insane fidelity , and her furious jealousy regarding her ...
... poor Sophia Dorothea , with her coquetry and her wrongs , and her passionate attachment to her scamp of a lover , and her wild impru- dences , and her mad artifices , and her insane fidelity , and her furious jealousy regarding her ...
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