Sir Walter Ralegh: A BiographyClarendon Press, 1899 - 413 pages |
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Page ix
... Never surely was there a career more beset with insoluble riddles and unmanageable dilemmas . At each step , in the relation of the most ordinary incidents , exactness of dates , or precision of events , appears unattainable . Fiction ...
... Never surely was there a career more beset with insoluble riddles and unmanageable dilemmas . At each step , in the relation of the most ordinary incidents , exactness of dates , or precision of events , appears unattainable . Fiction ...
Page 3
... never been . ' Yet Walter Ralegh of Fardell was still a land - owner of import- ance . His third marriage indicates that he had not fallen out of the society of his class . Not even personally can he and his wife Katherine be set down ...
... never been . ' Yet Walter Ralegh of Fardell was still a land - owner of import- ance . His third marriage indicates that he had not fallen out of the society of his class . Not even personally can he and his wife Katherine be set down ...
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... never restored it . Bacon's anecdote , in any case , being contemporary testimony , answers the useful purpose of confirming the reality of Ralegh's membership of the University , which otherwise would have to be believed on the faith ...
... never restored it . Bacon's anecdote , in any case , being contemporary testimony , answers the useful purpose of confirming the reality of Ralegh's membership of the University , which otherwise would have to be believed on the faith ...
Page 12
... never read a word of law or the statutes . On the other hand , doubts of the identity of the Rawely of the poem with Ralegh always involved intrinsic difficulties . Ralegh would have known Gascoigne through Humphrey Gilbert , with whom ...
... never read a word of law or the statutes . On the other hand , doubts of the identity of the Rawely of the poem with Ralegh always involved intrinsic difficulties . Ralegh would have known Gascoigne through Humphrey Gilbert , with whom ...
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... never lost , or tried to lose . She must have been conscious of depths of capacity , to which , whatever the exigency , appeal was never made in vain . But the surpassing attraction for her was the feeling that he and his grandeur were ...
... never lost , or tried to lose . She must have been conscious of depths of capacity , to which , whatever the exigency , appeal was never made in vain . But the surpassing attraction for her was the feeling that he and his grandeur were ...
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