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Duppa was, however, we are informed, "a man of such exemplary piety, lively conversation, and excess of good nature, that when Charles I. was in prison at Carisbrooke Castle he thought himself happy in the company of so good a man."
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1912
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To Clarendon, he was not only the trusted friend of his early patron, Laud, but the man to whom his royal master had committed, in solemn words, the religious education of his son; and that duty Duppa had carried out with an unswerving devotion, with however small success.
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 Henry Craik 1886
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Duppa, the Bishop of Winchester, had been the man closest in the confidence of Laud, and had been the chief agent in carrying out his reforms in the University of Oxford.
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 Henry Craik 1886
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Sheldon and Duppa were to represent the Church, while the Chancellor,
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 Henry Craik 1886
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Winchester; George Morley, now Bishop of Worcester, and soon after, successor of Duppa at Winchester; and Gilbert Sheldon, at first Bishop of
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 Henry Craik 1886
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Pisano's basreliefs, but models of those monsters which Duppa has engraved from Michel Angelo's 'Last Judgment' -- lean naked men, in whose hollow eyes glow the fires of hate and despair, whose nails have grown to claws, and from whose ears have started horns.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Pisano's basreliefs, but models of those monsters which Duppa has engraved from Michel Angelo's 'Last Judgment' -- lean naked men, in whose hollow eyes glow the fires of hate and despair, whose nails have grown to claws, and from whose ears have started horns.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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Wednesday. several persons have very humanely interested themselves about the state of my soul. some body — I strongly suspect it was Duppa — sent me the Age of
Letter 170 1796
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Duppa must be a loss to your society. a Painter is very necessary. one who would make a good picture for the
Letter 159 1796
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Duppa (— tho out of his element, which is the water, he being the oddest fish in Nature — & well represented in the Naturalists Miscellanny.)
Letter 159 1796
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