Sir Walter Raleigh: A BiographyAt the Clarendon Press, 1891 - 413 pages |
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... writing history instead of a life . Within an author's legitimate province the perplexities are numberless and distracting . Never surely was there a career more beset with insoluble riddles and unmanageable dilemmas . At each step , in ...
... writing history instead of a life . Within an author's legitimate province the perplexities are numberless and distracting . Never surely was there a career more beset with insoluble riddles and unmanageable dilemmas . At each step , in ...
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... writing before . Elizabeth . Mr. Spedding is inclined to agree , on account of the extraordinary resemblance he traces between it and the Guiana expedition of 1617-18 . The parallel is imaginary , as is the supposition that Gilbert's ...
... writing before . Elizabeth . Mr. Spedding is inclined to agree , on account of the extraordinary resemblance he traces between it and the Guiana expedition of 1617-18 . The parallel is imaginary , as is the supposition that Gilbert's ...
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... Writing in 1603 for the information of King James , Ralegh says that , when he was a Captain in Ireland , a hundred foot and a hundred horse would have beaten all the force of the strongest pro- vinces , for ' in those days the Irish ...
... Writing in 1603 for the information of King James , Ralegh says that , when he was a Captain in Ireland , a hundred foot and a hundred horse would have beaten all the force of the strongest pro- vinces , for ' in those days the Irish ...
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... writing again to Grey in vehement censure of Ormond . He repudiated any complicity in the defencelessness of the great wood of Conoloathe , and the country between the Dingle and Kilkenny . The commissariat of Cork , he charged , had ...
... writing again to Grey in vehement censure of Ormond . He repudiated any complicity in the defencelessness of the great wood of Conoloathe , and the country between the Dingle and Kilkenny . The commissariat of Cork , he charged , had ...
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... writing it as she and others pronounced it , Water . She enjoyed the anger her kindness aroused in other admirers , such as Hatton . He was willing to offer the homage for which she thirsted . So were other courtiers by the dozen ...
... writing it as she and others pronounced it , Water . She enjoyed the anger her kindness aroused in other admirers , such as Hatton . He was willing to offer the homage for which she thirsted . So were other courtiers by the dozen ...
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Page 129 - ... ends by the ships' sides, under the water even to the lips; many swimming with grievous wounds, strucken under water, and put out of their pain ; and withal so huge a fire, and such tearing of the ordnance in the great Philip, and the rest, when the fire came to them, as, if any man had a desire to see hell itself, it was there most lively figured.
Page 62 - I had no joy to be in any place, but loath to be near about her, when I knew my affection so much thrown down and such a wretch as Ralegh highly esteemed of her.
Page 24 - English court in good habit (his clothes being then a considerable part of his estate), found the queen walking, till, meeting with a plashy place, she seemed to scruple going thereon. Presently Raleigh cast and spread his new plush cloak on the ground ; whereon the queen trod gently, rewarding him afterwards with many suits, for his so free and seasonable tender of so fair a footcloth.