Sir Walter RaleighMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1904 - 292 pages |
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... able cruelties , as we know from the evidence of Agrippa d'Aubigné , the soldier , politician , historian , and poet , who was born in the same year as Raleigh himself , and who had joined the army of Condé a twelvemonth earlier . It is ...
... able cruelties , as we know from the evidence of Agrippa d'Aubigné , the soldier , politician , historian , and poet , who was born in the same year as Raleigh himself , and who had joined the army of Condé a twelvemonth earlier . It is ...
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... able to distinguish friend from foe ; or it may be that Raleigh avoided the main highway where the Barrys were assembled . In any case he succeeded in bringing his prisoners safely to Cork , with the loss of only one man , who died of ...
... able to distinguish friend from foe ; or it may be that Raleigh avoided the main highway where the Barrys were assembled . In any case he succeeded in bringing his prisoners safely to Cork , with the loss of only one man , who died of ...
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... able to give as to the position of affairs in Ireland would alone . have sufficed to attract the attention of the Court to a young soldier who had won a reputation for gallantry during his service in Munster , and had already attracted ...
... able to give as to the position of affairs in Ireland would alone . have sufficed to attract the attention of the Court to a young soldier who had won a reputation for gallantry during his service in Munster , and had already attracted ...
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... able proud " ; and again , " He had an awfulness and ascendency in his aspect over other mortals . " Obedient to the precepts of Castiglione , he expended no small proportion of his then slender means on the sumptuous apparel which was ...
... able proud " ; and again , " He had an awfulness and ascendency in his aspect over other mortals . " Obedient to the precepts of Castiglione , he expended no small proportion of his then slender means on the sumptuous apparel which was ...
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... able to adventure £ 2000 , and to contribute the famous Ark Raleigh of two hundred tons burden , which afterwards became the flag- ship of the Lord High Admiral in the great fight with the Armada . There is indeed mention , in a letter ...
... able to adventure £ 2000 , and to contribute the famous Ark Raleigh of two hundred tons burden , which afterwards became the flag- ship of the Lord High Admiral in the great fight with the Armada . There is indeed mention , in a letter ...
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Page 292 - 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 292 - 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!
Page 232 - You shall receive, my dear wife, my last words, in these my last lines. My love I send you, that you may keep when I am dead ; and my counsel, that you may remember it when I am no more. I would not, with my...
Page 85 - Moncado, with the galleys of which he was captain; and from Calais, driven with squibs from their anchors, were chased out of the sight of England round about Scotland and Ireland; where, for the sympathy of their religion, hoping to find succour and assistance, a great part of them were crushed against the rocks...
Page 85 - ... that landed, being very many in number, were notwithstanding broken, slain and taken, and so sent from village to village, coupled in halters to be shipped into England, where her Majesty, of her princely and invincible disposition disdaining to put them to death, and scorning either to retain or entertain them, they were all sent back again to their countries, to witness and recount the worthy achievements of their invincible and dreadful navy, of which the number of soldiers, the fearful burthen...
Page 233 - ... for me, which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Page 59 - Give me leave, therefore, without offence, always to live and die in this mind: that he is not worthy to live at all that, for fear or danger of death, shunneth his country's service and his own honour, seeing that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue immortal, wherefore in this behalf mutare vel timere sperno.
Page 123 - ... without bush or stubble, all fair green grass, the ground of hard sand easy to march on, either for horse or foot, the deer crossing in every path, the birds towards...