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" Thence home, and there, in favour to my eyes, staid at home, reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle,' wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him,... "
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by Pickering & Chatto - 1582
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The Antiquary's Portfolio: Or Cabinet Selection of Historical & Literary ...

J. S. Forsyth - 1825 - 422 pages
...them, it being quite through a good discourse. " March 18th. In favour to my eyes staid at home reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle, wrote...his wife : which shows her to be a mad, conceited, and ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him." In...
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S., Secretary to the ..., Volume 4

Samuel Pepys - 1828 - 486 pages
...in the Parliament above the other. Thence home, and there in favour to my eyes staid at home reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle, wrote...to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him. So to bed, my eyes being very bad ;...
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Londiniana: Or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis: Including ..., Volume 1

Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1829 - 456 pages
...productions," though abounding " in trifling circumstances," Pepys thus writes ; — " Staid at home reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle, wrote...to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him. "t There is a story current, that the...
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Londiniana: Or, Reminiscences of the British Metropolis: Including ..., Volume 1

Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1829 - 452 pages
...productions," though abounding " in trifling circumstances," Pepys thus writes ; — " Staid at home reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife ; which shows her to be a mm], couceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him and...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 1

Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...plundered the vessel before. " In favour to my eyes (says Pepys, in 1667,) I stayed at home reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle, wrote...woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she does about him." Again : " The whole story of this lady is a romance, and all she does is romantic....
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The Living Age, Volume 199

1893 - 840 pages
...must have been followed by a more than usually sad morning), calls the duchess's best-known work " the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote...suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him." a No doubt the publication of so laudatory a biography as that of the duke, during its subject's...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 8

1846 - 608 pages
...biography of her husband : — " ISth March, 1668.— Home, and, in favor to my eyes, stayed reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote...he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to and of him." The plays, poems, letters, essays, and philosophical fancies of the duchess fill some...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 8

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...biography of her husband : — " 18th March, 1663.— Home, and, in favor to my eyes, stayed reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote...he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to and of him." The plays, poems, letters, essays, and philosophical fancies of the duchess fill some...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 33

James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1846 - 828 pages
...biography of her husband : — " 18</i March, 1668. — Home, and, in favour to my eyes, staid reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife ; which shews her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 33

1846 - 782 pages
...biography of her husband : — " 18(/i March, 1668. — Home, and, in favour to my eyes, staid reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife ; which shews her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes...
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