The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Bände 5-8C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... continued to allow Sudley to take with her , which went beyond ordinary flirtation ; the scandal 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 ...
... continued to allow Sudley to take with her , which went beyond ordinary flirtation ; the scandal 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 ...
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... continued her Greek stu- dies after she ascended the throne : " after dinner " ( at Wind- sor Castle , 10th December , 1563 ) he says , " I went up to read with the Queen's Majesty : we read there together in the Greek tongue , as I ...
... continued her Greek stu- dies after she ascended the throne : " after dinner " ( at Wind- sor Castle , 10th December , 1563 ) he says , " I went up to read with the Queen's Majesty : we read there together in the Greek tongue , as I ...
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... continued to reside at Hatfield till the death of Mary , which took place on the 17th of November , 1558 . The news was communicated the same day , but not till after the lapse of some hours , to the House of Lords , which was sitting ...
... continued to reside at Hatfield till the death of Mary , which took place on the 17th of November , 1558 . The news was communicated the same day , but not till after the lapse of some hours , to the House of Lords , which was sitting ...
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... 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 proof of a prudence above her years ...
... 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 proof of a prudence above her years ...
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... continued to be Elizabeth's principal adviser till his death in 1598 , when he was succeeded by Thomas Sackville , Lord Buckhurst ( afterwards made Earl of Dorset by James I. ) . Of the other persons who served as ministers during ...
... continued to be Elizabeth's principal adviser till his death in 1598 , when he was succeeded by Thomas Sackville , Lord Buckhurst ( afterwards made Earl of Dorset by James I. ) . Of the other persons who served as ministers during ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 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.
Seite 42 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.