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… North and William Legge, 2 nd earl of Dartmouth. 12 To them, he wrote that he and his wife longed to welcome them in England: ‘You are the favourites, & will continue so’. 13 North, in particular, fulfilled the potential that Newcastle … in 1756, George Simon Harcourt was surprised to hear ‘[Henry Herbert, 10 th earl of] Pembroke has so good a character in England, for his Lordship, was rather famed for excesses of all kinds abroad than for any other thing’. 14 Pembroke … Further Reading Ayres, P., Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Bohls, Elizabeth, Women Travel Writers and the Language of …
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