| Walter Scott - 1864 - 356 pages
...following : — " Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a very goodly personage, and singularly well featured, being a great favourite to Queen Elizabeth, it was...thought, and commonly reported, that had he been a bachelor or widower, the Queen would have made him her husband ; to this end, to free himself of all... | |
| Walter Scott - 1869 - 696 pages
...following : — " Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a very goodly personage, and singularly well featured, being a great favourite to Queen Elizabeth, it was...thought, and commonly reported, that had he been a bachelor or widower the Queen would have made him her husband ; to this end, to free himself of all... | |
| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1877 - 482 pages
...following : — " Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a very goodly personage, and singularly well featured, being a great favourite to Queen Elizabeth, it was...thought, and commonly reported, that had he been a bachelor or widower, the Queen would have made him her husband ; to this end, to free himself of all... | |
| Walter Scott - 1877 - 598 pages
...romance :— " Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a very goodly personage, and singularly well featured, being a great favourite to Queen Elizabeth, it was...thought, and commonly reported, that had he been a bachelor or widower the Queen would have made him her husband ; to this end, to free himself of all... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Great Britain - 1883 - 422 pages
...following : — ' Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a very goodly personage, and singularly well featured, being a great favourite to Queen Elizabeth, it was...been a batchelor or widower, the Queen would have made him her husband ; to this end, to free himself of all obstacles, he commands, or perhaps, with... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1884 - 544 pages
...following : — "Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a very goodly personage, and singularly well featured, being a great favourite to Queen Elizabeth, it was...thought, and commonly reported, that had he been a bachelor or widower, the Queen would have made him her husband ; to this end, to free himself of all... | |
| Walter Scott - English fiction - 1886 - 908 pages
...Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a very goodly personage , and singularly well featured, being a great favorite to Queen Elizabeth, it was thought, and commonly reported, that had he bem a bachelor or widower the Queen would have made him her husband; to this end, to free himself of... | |
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