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Sedley's grandfather, William Sedley, was knighted in 1605 and created a baronet in 1611.
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It is this kind of libertinism that has secured the notoriety of, say, William Wycherley's The Country Wife, George Etherege's The Man of Mode, and Sir Charles Sedley's Bellamira: or, The Mistress ( see Bellamira ( play )).
Sedley's and Sedley
Hoping to marry Sedley Becky entices him, but she fails because of warnings from Captain Osborne, Sedley's own native shyness, and his embarrassment over some foolish drunken behaviour of his that Becky had seen.
Sedley's and was
However, it was above all Sedley's wit that his contemporaries admired him for.
Sedley's and baronet
Now, Becky Sharp says farewell to Sedley's family and enters the service of the crude and profligate baronet Sir Pitt Crawley, who has engaged her as a governess to his daughters.
Becky bids farewell to Sedley's family and enters the service of baronet Sir Pitt Crawley ( Bob Hoskins ), who has engaged her as a governess to his daughters.
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Not only characters like Horner and Dorimant spring to mind but also Rodophil and Palamede in Dryden's Marriage-a-la-Mode, Longvil and Bruce in Shadwell's The Virtuoso and the eponymous heroine in Sedley's Bellamira.
The relationship with Ann Ayscough lasted to the end of Sedley's life.
The relationship with Ann Ayscough lasted to the end of Sedley's life.
Dryden included Sedley's translations from Ovid in the Miscellany of 1684.
His first comedy, The Mulberry-Garden ( 1668 ), hardly sustains Sedley's contemporary reputation for wit in conversation.
However, many contents of the Sedley's posthumous edition are spurious.
Sedley's parliamentary career started in the 1660s but around 1677 / 78 he joined the Whig cause.
More speeches and parliamentary motions followed in 1690, including discussions on the Bill for regulating trials for High Treason, which sheds light on Sedley's political commitment after the Revolution.
Sedley's speeches were included in the 1702 edition of The Miscellaneous Works.
* Sir Charles Sedley's " The Mulberry-Garden " ( 1668 ) and " Bellamira: or, The Mistress " ( 1687 ): An Old-Spelling Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Commentary, ed.
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Johnson's grandfather William was poverty stricken, and was unable to educate his son Jacob or pass on any land to him.
In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).
* Oral history interview with Alfred Doughty Cavanaugh Cavanaugh discusses the work of his grandfather, A. J. Doughty, with William Seward Burroughs and the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.
Eleanor's grandfather, William IX of Aquitaine, gave her this rock crystal vase, which she in turn gave to Louis as a wedding gift.
Bismarck hoped to marginalise him just as he had marginalised his grandfather, but William II desired to be his own master.
The point of naming Margaret's sons, Edward after her father Edward the Exile, Edmund for her grandfather Edmund Ironside, Ethelred for her great-grandfather Ethelred the Unready and Edgar for her great-great-grandfather Edgar and her brother, briefly the elected king, Edgar Ætheling, was unlikely to be missed in England, where William of Normandy's grasp on power was far from secure.
Sally Hardesty ( Marilyn Burns ) and her brother, Franklin ( Paul A. Partain ), travel with three friends, Jerry ( Allen Danziger ), Kirk ( William Vail ), and Pam ( Teri McMinn ), to visit the grave of the Hardestys ' grandfather to investigate reports of vandalism and grave robbing.
Gerbino, in breach of the plighted faith of his grandfather, King William, attacks a ship of the King of Tunis to rescue thence his daughter.
His maternal grandfather was William Lyon Mackenzie, first mayor of Toronto and leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837.
He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the Beat Generation writer, and great-grandfather of William S. Burroughs, Jr., who was also a writer.
Her paternal grandfather was of Sicilian descent, and her paternal grandmother was a descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster.
Catherine's grandfather, William, was part of King Edward IV's court.
MacArthur's father and grandfather unsuccessfully sought to secure Douglas a presidential appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, first from President Grover Cleveland and then from President William McKinley.
Niven's grandfather William Degacher was killed in the Battle of Isandlwana ( 1879 ), during the Zulu War.
William Niven, David's father, was of Scottish descent ; his paternal grandfather, David Graham Niven, ( 1811 – 1884 ) was from St. Martins, a village in Perthshire.
He was born in Gloucestershire, at Pauntley in the Forest of Dean, although his family originated from Kinver in Staffordshire, England, where his grandfather Sir William de Whittington was a knight at arms.
His grandfather, James II of England and VII of Scotland, had ruled the country from 1685 to 1689, at which time he was deposed when Parliament invited the Dutch Protestant, William of Orange and his wife the Princess Mary ( King James ' eldest daughter ) to replace him, in the Revolution of 1688.
The groom's maternal grandfather, William Patterson, one of the wealthiest men in Maryland, gave the couple a mansion ( now Montrose Mansion ) as a wedding gift in an attempt to match the bride's dowery.
Born in Sioux City, Iowa, William Edwards Deming was raised in Polk City, Iowa on his grandfather Henry Coffin Edwards's chicken farm, then later on a farm purchased by his father in Powell, Wyoming.
William Stephen " Billy " Wright, named after his grandfather, was born in Wolverhampton, England on 7 July 1960 to David Wright and Sarah McKinley, Protestants from Northern Ireland.
In 1661, a grandfather by now, Huygens was sent to France by the circle of tutors of William III, to recover possession of the county of Orange.
John William Friso, the senior agnatic descendant of William the Silent's brother and a cognatic descendant of Frederick Henry, grandfather of William III, claimed the succession as stadtholder in all provinces held by William III.
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The Earl of Mulgrave's grandfather William Phipps had married Lady Catherine Annesley, who was the daughter and heiress of James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey and his wife Lady Catherine Darnley ( an illegitimate daughter of King James II by his mistress Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester ).
His grandfather William Phipps had married Lady Catherine Annesley, who was the daughter and heiress of James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey and his wife Lady Catherine Darnley ( an illegitimate daughter of King James II by his mistress Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester ).
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Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.
Hengesbach, who has been living on welfare recently, said he hopes to rebuild the farm which was settled by his grandfather in Westphalia, 27 miles southwest of here.
Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.
His maternal grandfather joined the Army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington.
Antoninus ’ father and paternal grandfather died when he was young and he was raised by Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus, his maternal grandfather, reputed by contemporaries to be a man of integrity and culture and a friend of Pliny the Younger.
After this deed he fled to Talmai, the king of Geshur () ( see also or ), his maternal grandfather, and it was not until three years later that he was fully reinstated in his father's favour and finally returned to Jerusalem.
Soon after the accession of Muhammad Shah Qajar to the throne of his grandfather, Fath Ali Shah, the Imam Hasan Ali Shah was appointed governor of Kerman in 1835.
Under the care of his mother, he was given not only that religious and Oriental education which his position as the religious leader of the Ismailis made indispensable, but a sound European training, a boon denied to his father and paternal grandfather.
With her siblings, Agrippina was raised in Rome by her maternal grandfather and maternal step-grandmother Livia Drusilla.
This in turn meant that Tiberius was also Agrippina's adoptive grandfather in addition to her paternal great-uncle.
His grandfather, also called John Aikin ( 1713 – 1780 ), was a Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy.
Manishtushu's son and successor, Naram-Sin ( 2254 – 2218 BC ) ( Beloved of Sin ), assumed the imperial title " King Naram-Sin, king of the four quarters ( Lugal Naram-Sîn, Šar kibrat ' arbaim )", and, like his grandfather, was addressed as " the god ( Sumerian
His full nomenclature shows that his grandfather or other ancestor was probably given Roman citizenship by the emperor Antoninus Pius, while proconsul of Asia.
Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.
He was also a paternal grandfather of Alexander the Great.
According to Livy the war was commenced by the Latins who anticipated Ancus would follow the pious pursuit of peace adopted by his grandfather, Numa Pompilius.
He was named after his legal grandfather.
Their loss, however, was compensated by the tender solicitude and care of his paternal grandfather and grandmother, the latter of whom lived to experience in her turn the kindest personal attention from her grandson, who, when he had the means, gave her an asylum in his house at Rome.
As soon as Canova's hand could hold a pencil, he was initiated into the principles of drawing by his grandfather Pasino.
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