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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... written this poem to amuse his friends , but in later years it was held to have a much more sinister significance , and as Walter Oakeshott has said the verses do suggest a direct and personal response to Marlowe . A poem which Raleigh ...
... written this poem to amuse his friends , but in later years it was held to have a much more sinister significance , and as Walter Oakeshott has said the verses do suggest a direct and personal response to Marlowe . A poem which Raleigh ...
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... written , of over 500 lines and headed The 21st ( and last ) Book of the Ocean to Cynthia . There is no doubt that it was written at this period . Rambling , inconclusive , written with such intensity it gives the impression that it all ...
... written , of over 500 lines and headed The 21st ( and last ) Book of the Ocean to Cynthia . There is no doubt that it was written at this period . Rambling , inconclusive , written with such intensity it gives the impression that it all ...
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... written - up . Neither have we transcripts of Raleigh's examinations . Most writers on the events leading up to the trial have relied on the two 19th - century biographers , Edwards and ( especially ) Stebbing , though these are ...
... written - up . Neither have we transcripts of Raleigh's examinations . Most writers on the events leading up to the trial have relied on the two 19th - century biographers , Edwards and ( especially ) Stebbing , though these are ...
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