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Kentish poets, a series of writers, natives of or residents in Kent; with ... - Page 69
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Memoirs of Count Grammont, Volume 2

Anthony Hamilton (Count) - France - 1809 - 344 pages
...Countess of Dorchester by King James II. A witty saying of Sedley's on this occasion is recorded. ' I hate ingratitude, ' and therefore, as the King has...I. will endeavour to 'make his daughter a queen,' meaning the Princess Mary, married to the .Prince .of. Orange. Lord Rochester's lines on his powers...
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Biographia Dramatica: pt. 2. Authors and actors: I-Y. Appendix. Additions ...

David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 416 pages
...witty saying of Sedley's, on this occasion, is recorded. " I ha-te " ingratitude (said Sir Charles) ; " and therefore, as the King has " made my daughter...I " will endeavour to make his " daughter a queen :" meaning the Princess Mary, married to the Prince of Orange, who dispossessed James of the throne...
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Biographia Dramatica: pt.1. Authors and Actors: A-H

David Erskine Baker - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 426 pages
...witty saying of Sedley's, on this occasion, is recorded. " I hat« " ingratitude (said Sir Charles) ; " and therefore, as the King has " made my daughter...countess, I " will endeavour to make his daughter a queen :" meaning it necessary, in the language of the Princess Mary, married to the the court, to have a...
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Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives ..., Volumes 1-2

Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...liberal of his favours to him and to his family, who had honoured his daughter with his affection, and elevated her to the rank of a countess, he replied...patriot, A Speech in the House of Commons made on the bill for the raising monies for the civil lists, in the first year of the reign of King William the...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 19

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 936 pages
...witty aaying of Sedley's, on this occasion, is recorded. " I hate ingratitude, (said Sir Charles) ; and therefore, as the king has made my daughter a...countess, I will endeavour to make his daughter a queen ;" meaning the princess Mary, married to the prince of Orange, who dispossessed James of the throne...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 19

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...perhaps patriotic, readily joined to dispossess him of his throne. ' I hate ingratitude,' said he, 'and therefore, as the king has made my daughter a...countess, I will endeavour to make his daughter a queen; meaning the princess Mary, married to the prince of Orange, who deprived James of his crown at the...
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Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Great Britain, Volume 3

1838 - 406 pages
...the activity with which he laboured to advance the revolution. " I hate ingratitude," he observed, " and therefore, as the king has made my daughter a...countess, I will endeavour to make his daughter a queen," alluding to the princess Mary, who was married to the prince of Orange. The countess of Dorchester...
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Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts ..., Volume 4

John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 558 pages
...inflamed against the King, to whom he was under so many obligations ? — "I hate ingratitude," he said, " and therefore, as the King has made my daughter a...Countess, I will endeavour to make his daughter a Queen." The anecdote, though well known, is worthy of repetition. According to the authors of Biographia Britannica,...
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Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second

Anthony Hamilton (Count) - Great Britain - 1846 - 564 pages
...inflamed against the king, to whom he was under so many obligations ? " I hate ingratitude," he said, " and therefore, as the king has made my daughter a...countess, I will endeavour to make his daughter a queen." Referring to the Princess Mary, wife of the Prince of Orange, who, by the success of tbis great outbreak,...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...probably quickened the poet's zeal against the court ' I hate ingratitude,' said the witty Sedley ; ' and إ  ƀ 0 E 怀 0 Z Ȁ ⁀ n"I 18 — alluding to the Princess Mary, married to the Prince of Orange. Sir Charles wrote plays and poems,...
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