Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester, Who Died the 26th of July, 1680 Written by His Own Direction on His Death-Bed (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester, Who Died the 26th of July, 1680: Written by His Own Direction on His Death-Bed

Can anything, indeed, be fadder than that one fo highly gifted with intellect, courage, and good looks as Wilmot Lord Rochefier, fhould have left a name almof't proverbial for all that is mof't di?ipated and abandoned; and that a career which might have rivalled in the reign of Charles II. That of Philip Sydney in that of Elizabeth, fhould (owing probably not a little to the general licenfe of the time) have terminated in early life by a difeafe brought on from drink and debauchery?

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