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My main reason for writing this book is that for nearly forty years Ralegh has been a major interest of mine , and at last I found I wanted to write about him . Footnotes are out of fashion , and readers have become intolerant of ...
My main reason for writing this book is that for nearly forty years Ralegh has been a major interest of mine , and at last I found I wanted to write about him . Footnotes are out of fashion , and readers have become intolerant of ...
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I cannot write much . God knows how hardly I stole this time , when all sleep . And it is time to separate my thoughts from the world . Beg my dead body , which living was denied you ; and either lay it at Sherborne , if the land ...
I cannot write much . God knows how hardly I stole this time , when all sleep . And it is time to separate my thoughts from the world . Beg my dead body , which living was denied you ; and either lay it at Sherborne , if the land ...
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But he dared not write to “ my poor wife . . . for renewing the sorrow for her son . " He begged Winwood to comfort her , and to give a copy of his letter and inclosures to Lord Carew . Next day ( March 22 , 1618 ) he steeled himself to ...
But he dared not write to “ my poor wife . . . for renewing the sorrow for her son . " He begged Winwood to comfort her , and to give a copy of his letter and inclosures to Lord Carew . Next day ( March 22 , 1618 ) he steeled himself to ...
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| Title | Sir Walter Ralegh, Last of the Elizabethans |
| Author | Edward John Thompson |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 Jul 2010 |
| Length | 416 pages |
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