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Anne was popular. England liked feminine rulers. Why? France excludes
them. There is a reason at once. Perhaps there is no other. With English
historians Elizabeth embodies grandeur, Anne good-nature. As they will.
Be it so. But there is nothing delicate in the reigns of these women.
The lines are heavy. It is gross grandeur and gross good-nature. As to
their immaculate virtue, England is tenacious of it, and we are not
going to oppose the idea. Elizabeth was a virgin tempered by Essex;
Anne, a wife complicated by Bolingbroke.
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