The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe: Wife of the Right Honble. Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bart., 1600-72John Lane, 1907 - 617 pagina's |
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afterwards Ambassador April August born Boteler brother buried Capel Chancellor Charles Charles II Church Clarendon coach command Council Court daughter of Sir death December died Dronfield Duke of Medina Earl of Sandwich eldest Elizabeth England English Evelyn Exchequer Fanshawe's father February fleet France Governor hath Heathcote MSS Henry Fanshawe Hertford honour husband Ireland January John Fanshawe July June King King's King's Remembrancer knighted Lady Fanshawe letter Lisbon London Lord Arlington Lord Hopton Lord Sandwich Madrid Majesty Majesty's March Marquis married master Memoirs miles months November October Ormonde Oxford Parliament Parsloes Pepys persons Portugal Queen received records Remembrancer Restoration returned Robert Southwell Secretary sent September Simon Fanshawe Sir Edward Hyde Sir Henry Sir Philip Warwick Sir Richard Fanshawe Sir Thomas Fanshawe Sir William sister Smythe Spain Spanish Tangier Torres town treaty Viscount Fanshawe visited Ware Park wife wrote
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Pagina 330 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Pagina 430 - This was also his birthday, and with a triumph of above 20,000 horse and foot, brandishing their swords, and shouting with inexpressible joy ; the ways strewed with flowers, the bells ringing, the streets hung with tapestry, fountains running with wine ; the Mayor, Aldermen, and all the Companies, in their liveries, chains of gold, and banners ; Lords and Nobles, clad in cloth of silver, gold, and velvet ; the windows and balconies, all set with ladies ; trumpets, music, and myriads of people flocking,...
Pagina 226 - That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line : A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations ,and translators too : They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame.
Pagina 225 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pagina 463 - Cutler saw tenants break and houses fall; For very want he could not build a wall.
Pagina 421 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Pagina 378 - ... an insinuation and servile flattery to the height, the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented with; that it preserved and won his life from those who were most resolved to take it, and in an occasion in which he ought to have been ambitious to have lost it ; and then preserved him again, from the reproach and...
Pagina 433 - Turks ; but I know not yet what they are for. The streets all gravelled, and the houses hung with carpets before them, made brave show, and the ladies out of the windows. So glorious was the show with gold and silver, that we were not able to look at it, our eyes at last being so much overcome.
Pagina 460 - Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land: What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree! What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand!
Pagina 30 - I will ever put into thy hands, as God shall bless me with increase." And now I thought myself a perfect queen, and my husband so glorious a crown, that I more valued myself to be called by his name than born a princess, for I knew him very wise and very good, and his soul doted on me; upon which confidence I will tell you what happened. My Lady Rivers, a brave woman, and one that had suffered many thousand pounds...