The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Томи 5 – 8C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... called heresy , and in enforcing uniformity of worship with great strictness . The determination upon which the queen acted in these matters , as she expressed it in a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury , was , " that no man should ...
... called heresy , and in enforcing uniformity of worship with great strictness . The determination upon which the queen acted in these matters , as she expressed it in a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury , was , " that no man should ...
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... called themselves , against the government of the queen and her mother the Regent , Mary of Guise . The town of Leith soon yielded to this force ; and the French king was speedily compelled both to renounce his wife's pretensions to the ...
... called themselves , against the government of the queen and her mother the Regent , Mary of Guise . The town of Leith soon yielded to this force ; and the French king was speedily compelled both to renounce his wife's pretensions to the ...
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... called themselves . An English fleet at the same time attacked and ravaged the Spanish settlements in the West Indies . At last , in the summer of 1588 , the great Spanish fleet , arrogantly styled the Invincible Armada , sailed for the ...
... called themselves . An English fleet at the same time attacked and ravaged the Spanish settlements in the West Indies . At last , in the summer of 1588 , the great Spanish fleet , arrogantly styled the Invincible Armada , sailed for the ...
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... called Robert , was groom of the chamber to Henry VII . He married , and he had a son , also Robert , who married Agnes Webbe . Their youngest daughter was Mary , the mother of William Shakspere . High as was her descent , wealthy and ...
... called Robert , was groom of the chamber to Henry VII . He married , and he had a son , also Robert , who married Agnes Webbe . Their youngest daughter was Mary , the mother of William Shakspere . High as was her descent , wealthy and ...
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... called Ingon , at the annual rent of eight pounds . This rent , equivalent to at least forty pounds of our present money , would indicate that the appurte- nance included a house , —and a very good house . This meadow of Ingon forms ...
... called Ingon , at the annual rent of eight pounds . This rent , equivalent to at least forty pounds of our present money , would indicate that the appurte- nance included a house , —and a very good house . This meadow of Ingon forms ...
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admiration afterwards Andrew Marvell appears appointed April army Bacon Ben Jonson Bishop Blake born brother brought Buckingham called Camden chancellor character Charles church Clarendon College court Cromwell crown daughter death died doubt Duke Duke of York Earl Elizabeth England English Essex father favour favourite Fuller Hampden hath Henry Henry VIII Heylin Hobbes honour House of Commons House of Lords Hudibras Hyde John Shakspere Jonson king king's Lady Latin Laud learning letter lived London Long Parliament Lord lord chancellor majesty marriage married Marvell master ment Milton mind never Oliver Cromwell Oxford parliament party person Prince principal probably published queen Raleigh reign returned royal Royalists says Selden sent sermon Shakspere's soon Stratford things Thomas thought tion took town University of Oxford Wentworth wife William Shakspere writings
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Сторінка 19 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Сторінка 42 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Сторінка 52 - Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc. "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Сторінка 124 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Сторінка 57 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Сторінка 41 - It had all the evidences of an absolute Victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the Godly Party principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy. The Left Wing, which I commanded, being our own horse, saving a few Scots in our rear, beat all the Prince's horse. God made them as stubble to our swords.
Сторінка 44 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company, and, amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlcote, near Stratford.
Сторінка 46 - I KNOW not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a...
Сторінка 73 - Nature, the art whereby God hath made and governs the world, is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal.
Сторінка 110 - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.