| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 510 pages
...formerly been a chapter-house of the church ; and where, upon his monument, there is this inscription : " Fulke Greville, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to king James, and friend to sir Philip Sidney. Tropheum peccati." He made that dear friend the great exemplar of his life in every thing ; and Sidney... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 516 pages
...formerly been a chapter-house of the church ; and where, upon his monument, there is this inscription : " Fulke Greville, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to king James, and friend to sir Philip Sidney. Tropheum peccati." He made thab dear friend the great exemplar of his life in every thing ; and Sidney... | |
| John Britton - Architecture - 1814 - 444 pages
...midland parts of England." He was created Baron Brooke, and according to his monumental inscription was " Servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." He was murdered by his own servant at Brooke-house in Holborn, London, and was succeeded by Robert^... | |
| John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1814 - 872 pages
...of a heavy character. On the ledge of the table part is the following inscription; " Fulke Grcvil, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sydney." The remains of his lordship lie in a vault beneath, embalmed and enclosed in a coffin of lead.... | |
| Prickett - 1815 - 318 pages
...!" Round the sides of the tomb is also inscribed the style of the noble founder, as thus — • " Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." This nobleman, who was an ingenious writer, and a munificent patron of learning, was the son of Sir... | |
| William Field - 1816 - 208 pages
...following inscription, remarkable at once, for simplicity, conciseness, and dignity. " Fulke Grevil, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." f^eslry Room. — This is supposed to have been the library belonging to the monasteiy, in which a... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 pages
...side of Warwick church, which hath escaped the late desolation, with this well-known inscription, " Fulke Greville, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor...to king " James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." Nor is he less remembered by the monument he has left in his writings and poems, chiefly composed in... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 616 pages
...side of Warwick church, which hath escaped the late desolation, with this well-known inscription, " Fulke Greville, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor...to king " James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." Nor is he less remembered by the monument he has left in his writings and poems, chiefly composed in... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 420 pages
...former state. * * * * * * * * SIR FULK GREV1LLE, WHO ordered this inscription for his own grave : " Servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sydney ;" was created knight of the bath at James's coronation, afterwards appointed sub-treasurer,... | |
| James Norris Brewer - 1820 - 396 pages
...of a heavy character. On the ledge of the table part is the following inscription; " Fulke Grevil, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sydney." The remains of his lordship lie in a vault beneath, embalmed and enclosed in a coffin of lead.... | |
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