The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Volumes 5-8C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... king , and if the king himself should die without other issue male , then the crown should go " to the Lady Elizabeth , now prin- VOL . V. B cess , and to the heirs of her body lawfully. QUEEN ELIZABETH SIR MATTHEW HALE.
... king , and if the king himself should die without other issue male , then the crown should go " to the Lady Elizabeth , now prin- VOL . V. B cess , and to the heirs of her body lawfully. QUEEN ELIZABETH SIR MATTHEW HALE.
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... king's person and to force the princess to marry him ; but his execution in the course of a few months stopped this and all his other ambitious schemes . In 1550 , in the reign of Edward VI . , it was proposed that Elizabeth should be ...
... king's person and to force the princess to marry him ; but his execution in the course of a few months stopped this and all his other ambitious schemes . In 1550 , in the reign of Edward VI . , it was proposed that Elizabeth should be ...
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... King Edward's Book of Common Prayer , with certain alterations , that had been suggested by a royal commission over which Parker ( af- terwards Archbishop of Canterbury ) presided . In accord- ance with this last statute public worship ...
... King Edward's Book of Common Prayer , with certain alterations , that had been suggested by a royal commission over which Parker ( af- terwards Archbishop of Canterbury ) presided . In accord- ance with this last statute public worship ...
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... king , Francis II . , of the arms and royal titles of England , in right , as was pretended , of his wife , the young Mary , queen of Scots . Elizabeth instantly resented this act of hostility by sending a body of 5000 troops to ...
... king , Francis II . , of the arms and royal titles of England , in right , as was pretended , of his wife , the young Mary , queen of Scots . Elizabeth instantly resented this act of hostility by sending a body of 5000 troops to ...
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... king of Eng- land , partly on the ground of his descent from John of Gaunt , partly in consequence of Mary having by her will bequeathed her pretensions to him should her son persist in remaining a heretic . Henry IV . , having pre ...
... king of Eng- land , partly on the ground of his descent from John of Gaunt , partly in consequence of Mary having by her will bequeathed her pretensions to him should her son persist in remaining a heretic . Henry IV . , having pre ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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
Passagens conhecidas
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.