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... Queen and Prince Edward , whither they had gone , when the Lancastrians were defeated at the battle of Hexham , in the year 1464. For the education of the prince , who was entrusted to his care , he wrote this Latin work , in the form ...
... Queen and Prince Edward , whither they had gone , when the Lancastrians were defeated at the battle of Hexham , in the year 1464. For the education of the prince , who was entrusted to his care , he wrote this Latin work , in the form ...
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... queen , afterwards with Elizabeth.39 He was imprisoned at the age of twelve with his father , when the latter was convicted of high treason , and was not released until the year 1553 , when Mary came to the throne . While a prisoner he ...
... queen , afterwards with Elizabeth.39 He was imprisoned at the age of twelve with his father , when the latter was convicted of high treason , and was not released until the year 1553 , when Mary came to the throne . While a prisoner he ...
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... queen's devotion . " But " courtly adulation " of the reigning sovereign was a common proceeding , and even Elizabeth received many high - flown compliments . The amount of literature relating to the Great Rebellion of the West in 1549 ...
... queen's devotion . " But " courtly adulation " of the reigning sovereign was a common proceeding , and even Elizabeth received many high - flown compliments . The amount of literature relating to the Great Rebellion of the West in 1549 ...
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... Queen of Scots , from the charge of being accessory to the murder of her husband , Lord Darnley , and in it she is termed " Martyr Ecclesiæ . " ( 1588 ) . This is thought to be a reply to a work by George Buchanan , published 16 years ...
... Queen of Scots , from the charge of being accessory to the murder of her husband , Lord Darnley , and in it she is termed " Martyr Ecclesiæ . " ( 1588 ) . This is thought to be a reply to a work by George Buchanan , published 16 years ...
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... Queen , and Ralegh in turn read a poem of his own composed shortly before . " His song was all a lamentable lay Of great vnkindnesse , and of vsage hard , Of Cynthia the ladie of the sea , Which from her presence faultlesse him debard ...
... Queen , and Ralegh in turn read a poem of his own composed shortly before . " His song was all a lamentable lay Of great vnkindnesse , and of vsage hard , Of Cynthia the ladie of the sea , Which from her presence faultlesse him debard ...
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Page 1 - In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
Page 36 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Page 34 - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers ; because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider.
Page 106 - Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affections yield discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
Page 85 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath...
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Page 32 - What a world of wit is here packed up together ! I know not whether this sight doth more dismay or comfort me. It dismays me to think, that here is so much that I cannot know: it comforts me to think, that this variety yields so good helps to know what I should. There is no truer word than that of Solomon : " There is no end of making many books.
Page 87 - Beneath the rule of men entirely great The pen is mightier than the sword.