It has now been fashionable, for near half a century, to defame and vilify the house of Stuart, and to exalt and magnify the reign of Elizabeth. The Stuarts have found few apologists, for the dead cannot pay for praise; and who will, without reward, oppose... The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby]. - Page 81 by Samuel Johnson - 1825 Full view -
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