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General sketches, however accurate in their outlines of political or constitutional
development, and however well adapted to dispel false ideas, still do not make
history a living thing to the young. They are most valuable as maps on which to ...
General sketches, however accurate in their outlines of political or constitutional
development, and however well adapted to dispel false ideas, still do not make
history a living thing to the young. They are most valuable as maps on which to ...
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This cannot have been without in1 fluence upon the young Walter ; for his home
was not far distant from the sea. We can picture him, as a boy, watching with
delight the busy stir of the seaport towns, and listening with breathless interest to
the ...
This cannot have been without in1 fluence upon the young Walter ; for his home
was not far distant from the sea. We can picture him, as a boy, watching with
delight the busy stir of the seaport towns, and listening with breathless interest to
the ...
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We do not know how he first won her favour; but in those days it was not difficult
for any young man to gain access to the court. Once there, a man's own wit and
talents alone could gain him success. When Ralegh first appeared at court, ...
We do not know how he first won her favour; but in those days it was not difficult
for any young man to gain access to the court. Once there, a man's own wit and
talents alone could gain him success. When Ralegh first appeared at court, ...
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We can well fancy how the gay young nobles who vied with one another in
expressing their devotion and adoration to the Queen must, when the restraint of
her presence was removed, have laughed together at the airs and graces of this
...
We can well fancy how the gay young nobles who vied with one another in
expressing their devotion and adoration to the Queen must, when the restraint of
her presence was removed, have laughed together at the airs and graces of this
...
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He was the brightest ornament of the court : young, brave, and accomplished ; a
poet and a soldier ; one of the first writers of pure and elegant English prose; and,
what was rarest in those days, a noble and single-minded man, without selfish ...
He was the brightest ornament of the court : young, brave, and accomplished ; a
poet and a soldier ; one of the first writers of pure and elegant English prose; and,
what was rarest in those days, a noble and single-minded man, without selfish ...
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Page 94 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history : (Wherein of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak), — such was my process; — And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 57 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 162 - Your words cannot condemn me ; my innocency is my defence. Prove one of these things wherewith you have charged me, and I will confess the whole indictment, and that I am the horriblest traitor that ever lived, and worthy to be crucified with a thousand thousand torments. " Attorney. Nay, I will prove all : thou art a monster ; thou hast an English face, but a Spanish heart.
Page 247 - Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 73 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the queen goes away so far off, whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. While she was yet...
Page 118 - Table;* her Bosom was uncovered, as all the English Ladies have it, till they marry; and she had on a Necklace of exceeding fine Jewels; her Hands were small, her Fingers long, and her Stature neither tall nor low; her Air was stately, her Manner of speaking mild and obliging.
Page 119 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Page 56 - Let tyrants fear ... I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects...
Page 118 - ... next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant, her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black...
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| Title | Life of Sir Walter Ralegh Creighton (M.) Historical Biographies No. 3 Hist. biogr Volume 3 of Historical biographies |
| Author | Louise Creighton |
| Publisher | Rivington's, 1877 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 270 pages |
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