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Há 3 dias · "I am at a solitude," he writes, "an house between Hampstead and London, where Sir Charles Sedley died. This circumstance set me thinking and ruminating upon the employment in which men of wit exercise themselves. It was said of Sir Charles, who breathed his last in a room in this house— 'Sedley had that prevailing, gentle art
18 de mai. de 2024 · SACKVILLE, CHARLES, sixth Earl of Dorset and first Earl of Middlesex (1638-1706), poet; son of Richard Sackville, fifth earl of Dorset, and Frances, daughter of Lionel Cranfield, first earl of Middlesex; M.P., East Grinstead, 1660; led life of dissipation with Sir Charles Sedley and others; volunteered in fleet fitted out against Dutch, 1665 ...
18 de mai. de 2024 · In 1668 he produced a prose comedy, The Sullen Lovers, or the Impertinents, based on Les Fâcheux by Molière, and written in open imitation of Ben Jonson 's comedy of humours. His best plays are Epsom Wells (1672), for which Sir Charles Sedley wrote a prologue, and The Squire of Alsatia (1688).
Há 2 dias · In Shire Lane, in the year 1639, the delightful song writer, and oracle of the licentious wits of his day, Sir Charles Sedley, first saw the light. He was baptised in the old church of St. Clement's. Ship Yard adjoined Shire Lane on the left.
20 de mai. de 2024 · Buckingham was one of the archetypal Restoration rakes, part of the "Merry Gang" of courtiers whose other members included John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and the playwrights William Wycherley and George Etherege.
Há 2 dias · Charles Sedley, esq. of Southfleet: 1702: Extinct. July 10. 956: Sir Henry Furnese, esq. of Waldershare. 1706: Extinct. June 29. 973: Wm. des Bouverie, esq. of London: 1714: Now Earl of Radnor. February 19.
20 de mai. de 2024 · Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Ridley', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 2, (Canterbury, 1797) pp. 458-463. ...
