Shrewsbury A Romance
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781417916146
Subjects: Classic fiction; Classics; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics
First sentence: THAT the untimely death at the age of fifty-eight of that great prince, Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, my most noble and generous patron, has afflicted me with a sorrow which I may truly call acerbus et ingens, is nothing to the world; which from one in my situation could expect no other, and, on the briefest relation of the benefits I had at his hands, might look for more.