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... been an object of suspicion to the wise old minister . But Ralegh's appearance at court excited still more bitter feelings in the mind of another man 1581 ] LORD BURLEIGH . 27 who then occupied an 26 [ 1581 SIR WALTER RALEGH .
... been an object of suspicion to the wise old minister . But Ralegh's appearance at court excited still more bitter feelings in the mind of another man 1581 ] LORD BURLEIGH . 27 who then occupied an 26 [ 1581 SIR WALTER RALEGH .
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... Lord Chancellor . He was a conscientious and prudent man , and filled the office with credit . But no reward could make up to him for the loss of his mistress's love ; and he saw himself with despair supplanted in her favour by Ralegh ...
... Lord Chancellor . He was a conscientious and prudent man , and filled the office with credit . But no reward could make up to him for the loss of his mistress's love ; and he saw himself with despair supplanted in her favour by Ralegh ...
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... Lord God suffered them to sustaine hunger . " The chief friend of the colonists amongst the natives died ; and the natives , wearied of the hard usage they received , plotted to destroy their taskmasters . Their plan was to refuse ...
... Lord God suffered them to sustaine hunger . " The chief friend of the colonists amongst the natives died ; and the natives , wearied of the hard usage they received , plotted to destroy their taskmasters . Their plan was to refuse ...
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... Lord High Admiral , Lord Howard of Effing- ham , was in despair , and wrote to Walsingham and Burleigh begging for reinforcements , and com- plaining bitterly of the condition of the navy . In one thing the English people were strong ...
... Lord High Admiral , Lord Howard of Effing- ham , was in despair , and wrote to Walsingham and Burleigh begging for reinforcements , and com- plaining bitterly of the condition of the navy . In one thing the English people were strong ...
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... Lord Howard was aided by the advice of the great English seamen , Drake , Hawkins , and Frobisher . Drake was appointed Vice - Admiral , and got together a fleet of sixty vessels at Ply- mouth . Most of these were volunteer barques ...
... Lord Howard was aided by the advice of the great English seamen , Drake , Hawkins , and Frobisher . Drake was appointed Vice - Admiral , and got together a fleet of sixty vessels at Ply- mouth . Most of these were volunteer barques ...
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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...