Sir Walter Ralegh: A BiographyAt the Clarendon Press, 1891 - 413 pages |
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Page vii
... 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 ...
Page 14
... 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 bold ...
... 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 bold ...
Page 17
... 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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