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... earl of Bridgewater , at Ludlow Castle , in Shropshire , in honour of his becoming lord president of Wales . Comus was Milton's first dramatizing of his great theme , the conflict of good and evil . If Comus was , in a way , a song of ...
... earl of Bridgewater , at Ludlow Castle , in Shropshire , in honour of his becoming lord president of Wales . Comus was Milton's first dramatizing of his great theme , the conflict of good and evil . If Comus was , in a way , a song of ...
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... earl of Oxford ; and Sir Hans Sloane . The Cotton and Ox- ford collections were composed mainly of manuscripts . The Sloane collection , however , included his specimens of natural history from Jamaica and classical , ethnographic ...
... earl of Oxford ; and Sir Hans Sloane . The Cotton and Ox- ford collections were composed mainly of manuscripts . The Sloane collection , however , included his specimens of natural history from Jamaica and classical , ethnographic ...
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... earl of Leicester , whom Elizabeth had sent to command Dutch and English auxiliary forces against the Spaniards after the fall of Antwerp . Leicester , like Anjou before him , endeav- oured to make himself absolute master of the country ...
... earl of Leicester , whom Elizabeth had sent to command Dutch and English auxiliary forces against the Spaniards after the fall of Antwerp . Leicester , like Anjou before him , endeav- oured to make himself absolute master of the country ...
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