The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations, Volume 4Conner & Cooke, 1833 |
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Page 37
... Countess were suffered to escape , upon a threat of Somerset to make public some secret which nearly affected his master , King James . Mrs. Turner introduced into England a French custom of using yel- low starch in getting up bands and ...
... Countess were suffered to escape , upon a threat of Somerset to make public some secret which nearly affected his master , King James . Mrs. Turner introduced into England a French custom of using yel- low starch in getting up bands and ...
Page 55
... Countess and the Duchess of Buckingham , so that Lord Dalgarno ; and the fico for such outcasts of they were little seen together , and the former seemed Parnassus ! Why , these are the very leavings of considerably to have withdrawn ...
... Countess and the Duchess of Buckingham , so that Lord Dalgarno ; and the fico for such outcasts of they were little seen together , and the former seemed Parnassus ! Why , these are the very leavings of considerably to have withdrawn ...
Page 124
... Countess was something of a puritan , and kept more company with ministers than was altogether agreeable to Lord Huntinglen , who is , as your Majesty well knows , a man of the old rough world , that will drink and swear . " " O Geordie ...
... Countess was something of a puritan , and kept more company with ministers than was altogether agreeable to Lord Huntinglen , who is , as your Majesty well knows , a man of the old rough world , that will drink and swear . " " O Geordie ...
Page 127
... Countess of Exeter , whom she accused of a purpose to put to death Lady Lake herself , and her daughter , Lady Ross , the wife of the Countess's own son- in - law , Lord Ross ; and a forged letter was produced , in which Lady Exeter was ...
... Countess of Exeter , whom she accused of a purpose to put to death Lady Lake herself , and her daughter , Lady Ross , the wife of the Countess's own son- in - law , Lord Ross ; and a forged letter was produced , in which Lady Exeter was ...
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... Countess and her son were arrest- ed , and cast into prison , where they were long detained , and very indifferently treated . When the restoration took place , the Countess , or by title the Queen dowager of the Island , seized upon ...
... Countess and her son were arrest- ed , and cast into prison , where they were long detained , and very indifferently treated . When the restoration took place , the Countess , or by title the Queen dowager of the Island , seized upon ...
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