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accusation adventurous anchor Arabella Stuart arrived became began Berreo boat brought called Captain Catholic chief Coke command Cornwall Court courtier danger death desired dreams Earl Edmund Spenser Elizabeth enemy England English enterprise Essex expedition favour fear fight fleet force gave gentlemen Gondomar Guiana hand harbour hath honour hope Indians Ireland Irish island Island Voyage Keymis King James King's knew land letter lived London Lord Burghley Lord Cobham Lord Grey Lord Thomas Howard Majesty matters mind never Philip Plymouth Prince prisoner Queen reason river sailed scaffold scheme sent Sherborne ships Sir Richard Grenville Sir Robert Cecil Sir Walter Ralegh soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish Spenser spirit strange strength Stukeley things Thomas thought took Tower town treason tyme unto vessels voyage waiting Walsingham woman words writes wrote young Ralegh
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Page 304 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 108 - He, sitting me beside in that same shade, Provoked me to plaie some pleasant fit; And, when he heard the musicke which I made, 70 He found himselfe full greatly pleasd at it: Yet, aemuling...
Page 300 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust I ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Page 221 - Well, I will now make it appear to the world, that there never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou.
Page 124 - I assure you, Sir, his poor servants, to the number of a hundred and forty goodly men, and all the mariners, came to him with such shouts and joy, as I never saw a man more troubled to quiet them in my life.
Page 125 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man...
Page 189 - She took me by the hand, and wrung it hard ; and said; ' No, Robin, I am not well;' and then discoursed with me of her indisposition; and that her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days; and in her discourse she fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs.
Page 232 - ... You shall now receive, my dear wife, my last words, in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep it when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not...
Page 139 - ... the most beautiful country that ever mine eyes beheld: and whereas all that we had seen before was nothing but woods, prickles, bushes, and thorns, here we beheld plains of twenty miles in length, the grass short and green, and in divers parts groves of trees by themselves, as if they had been by all the art and labour in the world so made of purpose: and still as we rowed, the deer came down feeding by the water's side, as if they had been used to a keeper's call.