... series in the history of the British isles. The Stuarts were a race of born poets whom the irony of their fate insisted upon placing one after the other upon a throne; with the single exception of Charles II (James VI was a pedant, which Page 197 for practical purposes is as bad as a poet) they were all men of an imaginative temper, artistic tastes & impossible ideals, and the best of them... enthusiasm to others. The terrible fate which dogged them was no mysterious doom of the Atridae, but the natural inexorable result of the incompatibility between their temperament & their position. Charles II was the only capable man in his line, the only one who set before him a worldly & unideal aim & recognising facts & using the only possible ways & means quietly & patiently accomplished it. The first ...
... their mature & accomplished work it is not represented. Akenside wrote either in blank verse or in lyrical metres. Secondly Gray and Collins are the restorers of the English lyric; since the reign of Charles II no one had written any even decently good lyrics, if a few of Gay's & Prior's are excepted, until this school appeared. The only form of lyric however which the three writers tried were Odes, which ...
... continued with his pamphleteering. And a little before the restoration of the Stuart Monarchy he published his treatise, The Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings Out of the Church, and, almost when Charles II came over, he brought out the anti-monarchical tract, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free-Commonwealth. Had not Marvell and some other friends intervened, he would have been sent to the ...
... Elizabeth I for a period of 15 years for spice trading, with a capital of £70,000. In 1640, the Company acquired the site of modern Madras (Chennai), where it quickly built Fort St George. In 1668, King Charles II transferred to the East India Company the site of Bombay (Mumbai), which he had received as part of a dowry when marrying the Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza. In 1690, Job Charnok, at ...
... essential for rapid recovery from virtually every illness. Then, midway through the nineteenth Page 191 century, it was discovered that bleeding served only to weaken the patient. King Charles II's death is believed to have been caused in part by administered bleedings. George Washington's death was also hastened by the severe loss of blood resulting from this treatment. Living in the ...
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