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... Lady Jane Grey the perfect Court lady . Many of Fuller's pithy sayings are admirable : A negro is the " image of God cut in ebony " ; Ridley's life was a " noble letter , writ by a noble hand , and of which a noble death was the seal ...
... Lady Jane Grey the perfect Court lady . Many of Fuller's pithy sayings are admirable : A negro is the " image of God cut in ebony " ; Ridley's life was a " noble letter , writ by a noble hand , and of which a noble death was the seal ...
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... lady in the impending danger , and speaks of the various kinds of sprites who watch over the " Fair , " " The light militia of the lower sky . " The heroine is approached with warning in her dream , but , wakened by her lap - dog ...
... lady in the impending danger , and speaks of the various kinds of sprites who watch over the " Fair , " " The light militia of the lower sky . " The heroine is approached with warning in her dream , but , wakened by her lap - dog ...
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... lady stands out prominently as a prose - writer , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , much remembered for her famous friend- ship and subsequent quarrel with Pope . Her husband was Ambassador at the Porte , and she described her life in the ...
... lady stands out prominently as a prose - writer , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , much remembered for her famous friend- ship and subsequent quarrel with Pope . Her husband was Ambassador at the Porte , and she described her life in the ...
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