The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 47
on, while1 others containlittle else than dull narrative of fiction without imagina-tion, and of events without interest. The principal ofthese paladins was Orlando, the great hero of chivalry,whose fabulous achievements filled all the books andprovincial songs of that age. It is recorded that… … EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield,born in 1694, and who received his education at TrinityHall, Cambridge, was no less celebrated for his talentsas a statesman and distinguished orator, than for histaste for the Belles Lettres, and his amiable personalqualities. He…
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