The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Volumes 5-8C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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Pagina 7
... royal soul , happy memory , and indefatigably given to the study of learning ; insomuch , as before she was seventeen years of age she understood well the Latin , French , and Italian tongues , and had an indifferent know- ledge of the ...
... royal soul , happy memory , and indefatigably given to the study of learning ; insomuch , as before she was seventeen years of age she understood well the Latin , French , and Italian tongues , and had an indifferent know- ledge of the ...
Pagina 11
... royal palace of Hatfield , under the superin- tendence of a Catholic gentleman , Sir Thomas Pope , by whom she was treated with respect and kindness . Philip was anxious to have the credit of advising mild measures in regard to the ...
... royal palace of Hatfield , under the superin- tendence of a Catholic gentleman , Sir Thomas Pope , by whom she was treated with respect and kindness . Philip was anxious to have the credit of advising mild measures in regard to the ...
Pagina 12
... royal palace of the Tower : here she continued till Monday the 5th of December , on the morning of which day she removed by water to Somerset House . One of Elizabeth's earliest acts of royalty , by which , as Camden remarks , she gave ...
... royal palace of the Tower : here she continued till Monday the 5th of December , on the morning of which day she removed by water to Somerset House . One of Elizabeth's earliest acts of royalty , by which , as Camden remarks , she gave ...
Pagina 14
... royal commission over which Parker ( af- terwards Archbishop of Canterbury ) presided . In accord- ance with this last statute public worship began to be performed in English throughout the kingdom on Whit- Sunday , which fell on the ...
... royal commission over which Parker ( af- terwards Archbishop of Canterbury ) presided . In accord- ance with this last statute public worship began to be performed in English throughout the kingdom on Whit- Sunday , which fell on the ...
Pagina 17
... 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 Scotland , to act there with the Duke of ...
... 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 Scotland , to act there with the Duke of ...
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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
Populaire passages
Pagina 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.
Pagina 42 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.