Sir Walter RaleighYou have lived like a star at which the world has gazed, said the judge at Sir Walter Raleigh's trial. He was fortune's tennis ball, said another contemporary, to many others he was an arrogant liar. |
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... thought's retreat ; To seek new worlds , for gold , for praise , for glory , To try desire , to try love severed far , When I was gone she sent her memory More strong than were ten thousand ships of war To call me back , to leave great ...
... thought's retreat ; To seek new worlds , for gold , for praise , for glory , To try desire , to try love severed far , When I was gone she sent her memory More strong than were ten thousand ships of war To call me back , to leave great ...
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... thought possibly to have given some inspiration to Defoe , who placed Robinson Crusoe on a desert island visited by man - eating Caribs , near Trinidad . So Tobago has become known as Crusoe's island.13 † Sir Robert Schomburgk in the ...
... thought possibly to have given some inspiration to Defoe , who placed Robinson Crusoe on a desert island visited by man - eating Caribs , near Trinidad . So Tobago has become known as Crusoe's island.13 † Sir Robert Schomburgk in the ...
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... thought ill of his Majesty . Therefore I can not but think it strange that this Frenchman being so base , so mean a fellow , should be so far credited . So much for this point . I have dealt truly , and I hope I shall be believed . It ...
... thought ill of his Majesty . Therefore I can not but think it strange that this Frenchman being so base , so mean a fellow , should be so far credited . So much for this point . I have dealt truly , and I hope I shall be believed . It ...
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