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Title: The Pageant of British History
Date of first publication: 1908
Author: Sir (James) Edward Parrott (1863-1921)
Date first posted: Sep. 11, 2018
Date last updated: Sep. 11, 2018
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“History is a pageant,
and not a philosophy.”
Augustine Birrell.
Henry the Eighth and Cardinal Wolsey.
(From the picture by Sir John Gilbert, R.A., in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.)
THE PAGEANT OF
BRITISH HISTORY
DESCRIBED BY
J. EDWARD PARROTT, M.A., LL.D.,
AND DEPICTED BY
THE FOLLOWING GREAT ARTISTS
J. M. W. Turner, G. F. Watts, Benjamin West, Lord Leighton,
Sir John Gilbert, Daniel Maclise, C. W. Cope, John Opie,
...