Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 |
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... spirit of Throgmorton himself , ought , probably to bear the chief blame both of this enmity and of his want of success at the court of a princess who exacted from her servants the exercise of the most refined and cautious policy , as ...
... spirit of Throgmorton himself , ought , probably to bear the chief blame both of this enmity and of his want of success at the court of a princess who exacted from her servants the exercise of the most refined and cautious policy , as ...
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... spirit of his readers against this formidable tyrant , a version of the Orations of Demosthenes against the king Philip of his day ; and he had been at the pains of pointing out in the notes coincidences in the situation of Athens and ...
... spirit of his readers against this formidable tyrant , a version of the Orations of Demosthenes against the king Philip of his day ; and he had been at the pains of pointing out in the notes coincidences in the situation of Athens and ...
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... spirits were burning with impatience to hasten to their succour . No act would have been hailed with such loud and general applause of her people as an instant re- nunciation by Elizabeth of all friendship and inter- course with the ...
... spirits were burning with impatience to hasten to their succour . No act would have been hailed with such loud and general applause of her people as an instant re- nunciation by Elizabeth of all friendship and inter- course with the ...
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... spirit , that they who had ventured to make such propositions must imagine them strangely careless of the personal safety of their sovereign . Charles IX . was particularly anxious that Eliza- beth , as a pledge of friendship , should ...
... spirit , that they who had ventured to make such propositions must imagine them strangely careless of the personal safety of their sovereign . Charles IX . was particularly anxious that Eliza- beth , as a pledge of friendship , should ...
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... spirit ; and an inordinate thirst of money and of sway . She brought to effect in 1574 a marriage between Elizabeth Cavendish , her daughter by a former husband , and Charles Stuart , brother of Darnley and next to the king of Scots in ...
... spirit ; and an inordinate thirst of money and of sway . She brought to effect in 1574 a marriage between Elizabeth Cavendish , her daughter by a former husband , and Charles Stuart , brother of Darnley and next to the king of Scots in ...
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Page 277 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peer?
Page 12 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath. That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 229 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Page 96 - ... 235. Sir Fulke Grevill had much and private access to Queen Elizabeth, which he used honourably, and did many men good ; yet he would say merrily of himself ; That he was like Robin Goodfellow ; For when the maids spilt the milkpans, or kept any racket, they would lay it upon Robin ; So what tales the ladies about the Queen told her, or other bad offices that they did, they would put it upon him.
Page 451 - Nay, madam, he is a doctor; never rack his person, but rack his style: let him have pen, ink, and paper, and help of books, and be enjoined to continue the story where it breaketh off, and I will undertake, by collating the styles, to judge whether he were the author or no...
Page 287 - Proud prelate, I understand you are backward in complying with your agreement : but I would have you know, that I, who made you what you are, can unmake you ; and if you do not forthwith fulfil your engagement, by God I will immediately unfrock you. Yours, as you demean yourself, Elizabeth.
Page 12 - At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 288 - IN Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands : "The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.
Page 229 - I know already, by your forwardness, that you have deserved rewards and crowns ; and we do assure you, on the word of a prince, they shall be duly paid you. In. the mean time, my lieutenant-general shall be in my stead; than whom never prince commanded a more noble...
Page 260 - ... alms: But though from court to cottage he depart, His Saint is sure of his unspotted heart. And when he saddest sits in homely cell, He'll teach his swains this carol for a song, — ''Blest be the hearts that wish my sovereign well, Curst be the souls that think her any wrong.