The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Volumes 5-8C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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Page 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.
Page 42 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.