Sermons Preach'd Upon Several Occasions Before King William, and Queen Anne
Author : Sir William Dawes
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 1708
Category : Sermons, English
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Author : Sir William Dawes
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 1708
Category : Sermons, English
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Author : Sir William Dawes
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 1707
Category : Sermons, English
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Author : John Sharp
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Page : 434 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 1734
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Author : Sir William Dawes
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 1709
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Author : William Wake
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 1737
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Author : Sir William Dawes
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 1707
Category : Sermons, English
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Author : James Anderson Winn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0199372217
As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the guitar and the harpsichord, danced regularly, and took a connoisseur's interest in all the arts. In this comprehensive interdisciplinary biography, James Winn tells the story of Anne's life in new breadth and detail, and in unprecedented cultural context. Winn shows how poets, painters, and musicians used the works they made for Anne to send overt and covert political messages to the queen, the court, the church, and Parliament. Their works also illustrate the pathos of Anne's personal life: the loss of her mother when she was six, her troubled relations with her father and her sister (James II and Mary II), and her own doomed efforts to produce an heir. Her eighteen pregnancies produced only one child who lived past infancy; his death at the age of eleven, mourned by poets, was a blow from which Anne never fully recovered. Her close friendship with Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, a topic of scabrous ballads and fictions, ended in bitter discord; the death of her husband in 1708 left her emotionally isolated; and the wrangling among her chief ministers hastened her death. Richly illustrated with visual and musical examples, Queen Anne draws on works by a wide array of artists-among them the composer George Frideric Handel, the poet Alexander Pope, the painter Godfrey Kneller, and the architect Christopher Wren-to shed new light on Anne's life and reign. This is the definitive biography of Queen Anne.
Author : Frederick Robert A. Glover
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385134072
Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.
Author : Robert Watt
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Page : 842 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 1824
Category : English literature
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Author : Robert Watt
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Page : 838 pages
File Size : 30,93 MB
Release : 1824
Category : English literature
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