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... soon determined to repudiate her for disobedience ; and , being one of those who could easily find arguments to justify inclination , published ( in 1644 ) The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ; which was followed [ 1644 ] by The ...
... soon determined to repudiate her for disobedience ; and , being one of those who could easily find arguments to justify inclination , published ( in 1644 ) The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ; which was followed [ 1644 ] by The ...
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... soon after made a gentleman of the bedchamber , sent on short embassies to France . and In 1674 , the estate of his uncle , James Cranfield , Earl of Middlesex , came to him by its owner's death , and the title was conferred on him the ...
... soon after made a gentleman of the bedchamber , sent on short embassies to France . and In 1674 , the estate of his uncle , James Cranfield , Earl of Middlesex , came to him by its owner's death , and the title was conferred on him the ...
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... soon afterwards , a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron the Earl of Dorset : it began with the College Exercise and ended with the Nut - brown Maid . The Battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in 1706 ) ...
... soon afterwards , a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron the Earl of Dorset : it began with the College Exercise and ended with the Nut - brown Maid . The Battle of Ramillies soon afterwards ( in 1706 ) ...
Contents
WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
George Granville LORD LANSDOWN 1665173435 | 35 |
INTRODUCTION by L ArcherHind | 44 |
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