In the Days of Queen Elizabeth
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Two ladies of the train of the Princess Elizabeth were talking softly together in an upper room of Hunsdon House.
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Two ladies of the train of the Princess Elizabeth were talking softly together in an upper room of Hunsdon House.
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John Munroe Bell had been a lawyer in Albany, State of New York, and as such had thriven well. He had thriven well as long as thrift and thriving on this earth had been allowed to him. But the Almighty had seen fit to shorten his span.
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For nearly half a century William Cecil, Lord Burghley, exercised greater influence over the future fortunes of England than ever fell to the share of a statesman before or since. It was a period when Medi?val Europe was in the melting-pot, from which, in due season, some of her peoples were to arise bright and shining, with fresh fait...
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“I know I ’ave enemies,” said Susan bitterly; “I know I am hated in this low neighbourhood. But I don’t see what them should hate me for, for I never interfere wid any of them.”
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It has been my pleasant duty to consider carefully in chronological order a great mass of diplomatic documents of the time of Elizabeth, in which are reflected, almost from day to day, the continually shifting aspects of political affairs, and the varying attitudes of the Queen and her ministers in dealing therewith. I have been struck...
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Category: Author:Jane Austen简·奥斯汀
This high-spirited tale, told through an exchange of letters, is unique in Jane Austen's small body of work. It is the story of Lady Susan, a brilliant, beautiful and morally reprehensible coquette who delights in making men fall in love with her, deceiving their wives into friendship and even tormenting her own daughter, cruelly bendi...
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Category: Author:Lytton Strachey
One of the most famous and baffling romances in history-between Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex-began in May of 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was just shy of twenty. Their relationship continued until 1601, when the Earl of Essex was beheaded for treason. And, in a succession of brilliant scenes...
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Category: Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin
1909. A novel from the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Contents: Mother Ann's Children; A Son of Adam; Divers Doctrines; Louisa's Mind; The Little Quail Bird; Susanna speaks in Meeting; The Lower Plane; Concerning Backsliders; Love Manifold; Brother and Sister; The Open Door; and The Hills of Home. Due to the age and scarcity of ...
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