Life of Sir Walter RaleghLongmans, Green, and Company, 1902 - 270 pages |
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Page 34
... gold , and silver . She would appear first in a French dress , then in an Italian , changing the fashion of her dress every day . It was customary that the courtiers should make the Queen presents every New Year . These , as a rule ...
... gold , and silver . She would appear first in a French dress , then in an Italian , changing the fashion of her dress every day . It was customary that the courtiers should make the Queen presents every New Year . These , as a rule ...
Page 35
... gold and silver lace . Stubbs , a stern Puritan moralist of those days , writes , " The women seem to be the smallest part of themselves , not natural women , but artificial women ; not women of flesh and blood , but rather mawmets ...
... gold and silver lace . Stubbs , a stern Puritan moralist of those days , writes , " The women seem to be the smallest part of themselves , not natural women , but artificial women ; not women of flesh and blood , but rather mawmets ...
Page 36
... gold pieces . " In one of his portraits he wears a suit of silver armour , and is richly adorned with diamonds , rubies , and pearls . Cur- rent gossip spoke much of his magnificence , and of his favour with the Queen ; but his haughty ...
... gold pieces . " In one of his portraits he wears a suit of silver armour , and is richly adorned with diamonds , rubies , and pearls . Cur- rent gossip spoke much of his magnificence , and of his favour with the Queen ; but his haughty ...
Page 41
... gold , so that she might have the means to prepare for the struggle if it should come . We have seen how some of the English seamen were animated by a desire to discover a north- western passage to Cathay , others by hatred of the ...
... gold , so that she might have the means to prepare for the struggle if it should come . We have seen how some of the English seamen were animated by a desire to discover a north- western passage to Cathay , others by hatred of the ...
Page 47
... gold , was to be found in such quantities that the people beautified their houses with great plates of it . But he was obliged to return before he reached this land of promise , on account of the failure of his provisions . He looked ...
... gold , was to be found in such quantities that the people beautified their houses with great plates of it . But he was obliged to return before he reached this land of promise , on account of the failure of his provisions . He looked ...
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