The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Volumes 5-8C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... of the day indeed was , that " the Lady Elizabeth did bear some affection to the admiral . " After his wife's death he was accused of having renewed his designs upon her hand ; and it was part 6 CABINET PORTRAIT GALLERY .
... of the day indeed was , that " the Lady Elizabeth did bear some affection to the admiral . " After his wife's death he was accused of having renewed his designs upon her hand ; and it was part 6 CABINET PORTRAIT GALLERY .
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his designs upon her hand ; and it was part of the charge on which he was attainted that he had plotted to seize the king's person and to force the princess to marry him ; but his execution in the course of a few months stopped this and ...
his designs upon her hand ; and it was part of the charge on which he was attainted that he had plotted to seize the king's person and to force the princess to marry him ; but his execution in the course of a few months stopped this and ...
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... hands , were on their way to town , when the news of Edward's approach- ing end induced them to turn back . When ... hand , and send for her to dinner and supper . At Mary's coronation , in October , 1553 , ac- cording to Holinshed , as ...
... hands , were on their way to town , when the news of Edward's approach- ing end induced them to turn back . When ... hand , and send for her to dinner and supper . At Mary's coronation , in October , 1553 , ac- cording to Holinshed , as ...
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... hand with a good dash ) refused . So she coming out , having one foot upon the stair , said , ' Here landeth as true a subject as ever landed at these stairs ; and before thee , O God , I speak it , having none other friends but thee ...
... hand with a good dash ) refused . So she coming out , having one foot upon the stair , said , ' Here landeth as true a subject as ever landed at these stairs ; and before thee , O God , I speak it , having none other friends but thee ...
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... hands ; and con- veyances of the temporalities by the holder for a longer term than twenty - one years or three lives were made void . The effect of these laws was generally to restore the church to the state in which it was in the ...
... hands ; and con- veyances of the temporalities by the holder for a longer term than twenty - one years or three lives were made void . The effect of these laws was generally to restore the church to the state in which it was in the ...
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admiration afterwards Andrew Marvell appears appointed April army Bacon Ben Jonson Bishop Blake born brother brought Buckingham called Camden chancellor character Charles church Clarendon College court Cromwell crown daughter death died doubt Duke Duke of York Earl Elizabeth England English Essex father favour favourite Fuller Hampden hath Henry Henry VIII Heylin Hobbes honour House of Commons House of Lords Hudibras Hyde John Shakspere Jonson king king's Lady Latin Laud learning letter lived London Long Parliament Lord lord chancellor majesty marriage married Marvell master ment Milton mind never Oliver Cromwell Oxford parliament party person Prince principal probably published queen Raleigh reign returned royal Royalists says Selden sent sermon Shakspere's soon Stratford things Thomas thought tion took town University of Oxford Wentworth wife William Shakspere writings
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Página 19 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Página 42 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Página 52 - Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc. "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Página 124 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Página 57 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Página 41 - It had all the evidences of an absolute Victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the Godly Party principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy. The Left Wing, which I commanded, being our own horse, saving a few Scots in our rear, beat all the Prince's horse. God made them as stubble to our swords.
Página 44 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford.
Página 46 - I KNOW not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a...
Página 73 - Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal.
Página 110 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.