The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Томи 5 – 8C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... wife , Anne Boleyn , and was born at Greenwich on the 7th of September , 1533. She was not three years old therefore when her mother was brought to the block , in May , 1536. Very soon after her birth it was declared , by the Act 25 ...
... wife , Anne Boleyn , and was born at Greenwich on the 7th of September , 1533. She was not three years old therefore when her mother was brought to the block , in May , 1536. Very soon after her birth it was declared , by the Act 25 ...
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... wife , Catharine Parr , it was declared that if Prince Edward should die without heirs , then the crown should remain first to the Lady Mary , and , failing her , to the Lady Elizabeth . This was the last legal settlement of the crown ...
... wife , Catharine Parr , it was declared that if Prince Edward should die without heirs , then the crown should remain first to the Lady Mary , and , failing her , to the Lady Elizabeth . This was the last legal settlement of the crown ...
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... wife , could not fail to give her deep offence . Availing herself of an order of Mary , assigning her a rank below what her birth entitled her to , as an excuse for wishing to retire from court , she obtained leave to go to her house at ...
... wife , could not fail to give her deep offence . Availing herself of an order of Mary , assigning her a rank below what her birth entitled her to , as an excuse for wishing to retire from court , she obtained leave to go to her house at ...
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... wife . Ac- cording to Camden , some of the Roman Catholic party wished to remove her to a distance from England , and to marry her to Emanuel Philibert , Duke of Savoy ; but Philip opposed this scheme , designing her for his eldest son ...
... wife . Ac- cording to Camden , some of the Roman Catholic party wished to remove her to a distance from England , and to marry her to Emanuel Philibert , Duke of Savoy ; but Philip opposed this scheme , designing her for his eldest son ...
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... wife , the young Mary , queen of Scots . Elizabeth instantly resented this act of hostility by sending a body of 5000 troops to Scotland , to act there with the Duke of Chatel- herault and the lords of the congregation , as the leaders ...
... wife , the young Mary , queen of Scots . Elizabeth instantly resented this act of hostility by sending a body of 5000 troops to Scotland , to act there with the Duke of Chatel- herault and the lords of the congregation , as the leaders ...
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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.
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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.
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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.