The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: To the Time of Dean Swift, Bind 1R. Griffiths, 1753 - 354 sider |
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... prince's reign , Chaucer was fent into Italy , in commiffion with others , to treat with the Doge and Senate of Genoa , about affairs of great importance to the English ftate . Duke of Lancaster , whofe favourite paffion was ambition ...
... prince's reign , Chaucer was fent into Italy , in commiffion with others , to treat with the Doge and Senate of Genoa , about affairs of great importance to the English ftate . Duke of Lancaster , whofe favourite paffion was ambition ...
Side 6
... prince was one of the proudest and most am- bitious men of his time , nor could he patiently bear the name of a fubject , even to his father ; nothing but abfolute power , and the title of king could fatisfy him . Upon the death of his ...
... prince was one of the proudest and most am- bitious men of his time , nor could he patiently bear the name of a fubject , even to his father ; nothing but abfolute power , and the title of king could fatisfy him . Upon the death of his ...
Side 9
... prince was now much leffened . The duke being dejected with the troubles in which he was involved , be- gan to reflect on his vicious courfe of life , and particularly his keeping that lady as his concubine ; which produced a refolution ...
... prince was now much leffened . The duke being dejected with the troubles in which he was involved , be- gan to reflect on his vicious courfe of life , and particularly his keeping that lady as his concubine ; which produced a refolution ...
Side 11
... prince , he was fent ambaffador to France . In the ninth of the fame reign the Commons chofe him their Speaker ; as they did likewife in the 11th year . Queen Jane granted to him , for his good fervice , the manor of Woodstock ...
... prince , he was fent ambaffador to France . In the ninth of the fame reign the Commons chofe him their Speaker ; as they did likewife in the 11th year . Queen Jane granted to him , for his good fervice , the manor of Woodstock ...
Side 12
... prince , and infulted the memory of his murdered fovereign . All acts of parliament and grants in the laft reign being annulled , Chaucer again repaired to court to get fresh grants ; but bending with age and weakness , tho ' he was fuc ...
... prince , and infulted the memory of his murdered fovereign . All acts of parliament and grants in the laft reign being annulled , Chaucer again repaired to court to get fresh grants ; but bending with age and weakness , tho ' he was fuc ...
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