The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, المجلدات 5-8C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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الصفحة 12
... appointed to the office of secretary of state , which he had already held under Edward VI . The be- ginning of Burghley's connexion with Elizabeth has been related in our memoir of that statesman . Soon after , Nicholas Bacon ( the ...
... appointed to the office of secretary of state , which he had already held under Edward VI . The be- ginning of Burghley's connexion with Elizabeth has been related in our memoir of that statesman . Soon after , Nicholas Bacon ( the ...
الصفحة 13
... appointed by the queen , who was taken with his handsome shape and ele- gant dancing at a court masque , characterizes as a great patron of learning and good sense , and one that managed that weighty part of lord chancellor with that ...
... appointed by the queen , who was taken with his handsome shape and ele- gant dancing at a court masque , characterizes as a great patron of learning and good sense , and one that managed that weighty part of lord chancellor with that ...
الصفحة 21
... appointed him commander - in - chief of the forces which she sent to the assistance of the Dutch , in- sisted upon maintaining him in that situation , notwith- standing the mischiefs produced by his incapacity and misconduct , and , at ...
... appointed him commander - in - chief of the forces which she sent to the assistance of the Dutch , in- sisted upon maintaining him in that situation , notwith- standing the mischiefs produced by his incapacity and misconduct , and , at ...
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... appointed , there is little doubt , to the office of Master of the Queen's Revels . Daniel , a brother poet , was appointed ; and in a letter to the Lord Keeper , Sir Thomas Egerton , he thus speaks of one of the competitors for the ...
... appointed , there is little doubt , to the office of Master of the Queen's Revels . Daniel , a brother poet , was appointed ; and in a letter to the Lord Keeper , Sir Thomas Egerton , he thus speaks of one of the competitors for the ...
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... appointed Rear - Ad- miral in the expedition called the Island Voyage , of which Essex held the chief command . The slight suc- cesses which were obtained were again due to the military talents of Raleigh ; the main objects of the ...
... appointed Rear - Ad- miral in the expedition called the Island Voyage , of which Essex held the chief command . The slight suc- cesses which were obtained were again due to the military talents of Raleigh ; the main objects of the ...
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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
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 42 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.