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[ 'Lely:' Sir Peter, who painted Cromwell and all the celebrities of his day.]
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[ 'Ripley:' the government architect who built the Admiralty; no favourite except with his employers.]
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[ 'Van:' Vanbrugh.]
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[ 'Astraea:' Miss Bolin, author of obscene, but once popular novels.]
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[ 'Old Edward's armour beams on Cibber's breast:' the coronation of Henry VIII. and Queen Anne Boleyn, in which the play-houses vied with each other to represent all the pomp of a coronation. In this noble contention, the armour of one of the kings of England was borrowed from the Tower, to dress the champion.—P.]