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Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… for beyond sea. Letters to my lord Chancellor to send some witty and skilful man to Dover with conduct for 500 horsemen …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… of their late letters, and is pleased with their "good, witty and painful proceedings." As it appears that they began …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… jades as I have not seen." "To make an end of this man." "Witty he is and pleasant amongst company, contented to keep …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… in this Court is dead. He was a man rather jovial and witty than of sufficiency to treat serious negociations. If …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… was before of mean estimation in the Court, although noted witty and in favour with De Longevalle. He had ever great …
Old and New London
… somewhere in Bloomsbury, in 1693. Sir John Vanbrugh, the witty dramatist, for building Castle Howard, was made …
Old and New London
… And never did a wise one.' "Though extremely gay and witty, poor Nell Gwynne seems never to have shown any hauteur … Swift, Steele, and Addison. Before Marvell's time, to be witty was to be strained, forced, and conceited; from …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… but Mr. Murrey being a young Gentleman, although witty, and full of good behaviour, I doubted, that being not …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… Monarchs of this Kingdom; besides, there were several witty Speeches in Verse. 1 st. Called the Speech of …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… appear. Mr. Gardiner, Recorder of London, made a long and witty defence for the Bishop for several days together, much …