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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have ap...

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... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...t of all. Oh! she was perfect past all parallel — Of any modern female saint’s comparison; So far above the cunning powers of hell, Her gu... ...uoted; And then she had all Seville for abettors, Besides her good old grandmother (who doted); The hearers of her case became repeaters, ... ...hold a levee round his lady’s bed, And summon lackeys, arm’d with fire and sword, To prove himself the thing he most abhorr’d. Poor Donna Julia,... ...ation of the trusty maid: She loiter’d, and he told her to be gone, An order somewhat sullenly obey’d; However, present remedy was none, A... ...ners, dividing them like chapters In number’d lots; they all had cuffs and collars, And averaged each from ten to a hundred dollars. Some he dis... ...ung diplomatic sinner, Pursued his path, and drove past some hotels, St. James’s Palace and St. James’s ‘Hells.’ They reach’d the hotel: forth s...