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Article: Speaking for the Dead: King Charles, Anna Weamys, and the Commemorations of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia.
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- March 22, 2000
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ON 30 JANUARY 1649, when Charles I mounted the scaffold at Whitehall he is said to have prayed to God: "look upon my misery with Thine eye of mercy and let Thine infinite power vouchsafe to limit out some proportion of deliverance unto me."(1) As early as Milton's revelation in Eikonoklastes (1649) that this scaffold prayer came not--or not originally--from King Charles but rather from Sir Philip Sidney's Pamela in the Arcadia, the incident has been understood as a controversial moment in the history of reading romance. Annabel Patterson has argued that Charles's ability to read himself into Sidney's romance demonstrates how after the Arcadia English romance became both ...
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Article: Rare volumes among thousands of sale books
The Scotsman;
May 7, 2002 ;
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... ... copy, in Royal binding and still in remarkably good condition, of The Works of King Charles the Martyr, dating from 1662. Usually known as the Eikon Basilike (the Royal image), this great volume contains the prayers and meditations of ...
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