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... wooded hills . The Raleghs were a good old family , but neither very rich nor very powerful . Walter's father , also called Walter , had been thrice married . Walter was the second son of the third wife , Katherine Champernowne . She had.
... wooded hills . The Raleghs were a good old family , but neither very rich nor very powerful . Walter's father , also called Walter , had been thrice married . Walter was the second son of the third wife , Katherine Champernowne . She had.
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Louise Creighton. of the third wife , Katherine Champernowne . She had been married before , and her sons , Humphry and Adrian Gilbert , Walter Ralegh's half - brothers , were in after years his associates in his schemes of adventure and ...
Louise Creighton. of the third wife , Katherine Champernowne . She had been married before , and her sons , Humphry and Adrian Gilbert , Walter Ralegh's half - brothers , were in after years his associates in his schemes of adventure and ...
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... wives and children with them , would be impressed with the need of settling down and making homes for themselves , before they hunted for treasure . The expedition left Plymouth on the 8th May , 1587. From the first White seems to have ...
... wives and children with them , would be impressed with the need of settling down and making homes for themselves , before they hunted for treasure . The expedition left Plymouth on the 8th May , 1587. From the first White seems to have ...
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... country- men , and attacked and killed some of the natives , which did not tend to increase their friendly feeling to the white men . On the 18th of August Elinor Dare , White's daughter , and wife of one of the colonists ,
... country- men , and attacked and killed some of the natives , which did not tend to increase their friendly feeling to the white men . On the 18th of August Elinor Dare , White's daughter , and wife of one of the colonists ,
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Louise Creighton. daughter , and wife of one of the colonists , gave birth to a daughter , who , as she was the first Christian child born in the colony , was named Virginia . The ships which had brought the colonists over now began to ...
Louise Creighton. daughter , and wife of one of the colonists , gave birth to a daughter , who , as she was the first Christian child born in the colony , was named Virginia . The ships which had brought the colonists over now began to ...
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Page 242 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth 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 ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Page 88 - Of hair-breadth 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 the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 51 - 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 156 - 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 67 - 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 112 - 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 50 - 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 112 - ... 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...
Page 157 - ... have spoken one word against me. Here is no treason of mine done. If my Lord Cobham be a traitor, what is that to me? Att. Gen.: All that he did was by thy instigation, thou viper, for I thou thee, thou traitor! I will prove thee the rankest traitor in all England.
Page 200 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...