The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Томи 5 – 8C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... caused the English queen to be looked upon as the head of the Protestant interest throughout Europe as much as she was at home . When the dispute therefore between the Catholics and the Huguenots or reformed party in France came to a ...
... caused the English queen to be looked upon as the head of the Protestant interest throughout Europe as much as she was at home . When the dispute therefore between the Catholics and the Huguenots or reformed party in France came to a ...
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... cause by her own interests ' ; and she on her part kept a watchful eye on the religious and political contentions of all these countries , with a view to the maintenance and support of the Protestant party , by every species of ...
... cause by her own interests ' ; and she on her part kept a watchful eye on the religious and political contentions of all these countries , with a view to the maintenance and support of the Protestant party , by every species of ...
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... cause of the people of the Netherlands had been openly espoused by Elizabeth , whose general , the Earl of Leicester , was now at the head of the troops of the United Provinces , as the re- volted states called themselves . An English ...
... cause of the people of the Netherlands had been openly espoused by Elizabeth , whose general , the Earl of Leicester , was now at the head of the troops of the United Provinces , as the re- volted states called themselves . An English ...
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... cause of Protestantism against Catholicism , but her own cause against Philip , her own right to the English throne against his , or that of the competitor with whom he took part . Since the death of Mary of Scotland , Philip pro ...
... cause of Protestantism against Catholicism , but her own cause against Philip , her own right to the English throne against his , or that of the competitor with whom he took part . Since the death of Mary of Scotland , Philip pro ...
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... cause of her father's confidence , occupies the most prominent position in the will . She has an undivided estate and a sum of money ; and , from the crop being also bequeathed to her , it is evident that she was considered able to con ...
... cause of her father's confidence , occupies the most prominent position in the will . She has an undivided estate and a sum of money ; and , from the crop being also bequeathed to her , it is evident that she was considered able to con ...
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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.