The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies..Charles Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... duke- dom of Normandy , the older acquisition of his heroic race . His grandmother , the wife of Henry I. , was Matilda , daughter of Queen Margaret of Scotland , her- self the daughter of Edward the Outlaw , in the veins of whose ...
... duke- dom of Normandy , the older acquisition of his heroic race . His grandmother , the wife of Henry I. , was Matilda , daughter of Queen Margaret of Scotland , her- self the daughter of Edward the Outlaw , in the veins of whose ...
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... Duke of Guienne or Aquitaine and Earl of Poitou , countries extending along the whole of the western coast of France , from the Loire to the Pyrenees , which her marriage , celebrated immediately after her father's death , in the year ...
... Duke of Guienne or Aquitaine and Earl of Poitou , countries extending along the whole of the western coast of France , from the Loire to the Pyrenees , which her marriage , celebrated immediately after her father's death , in the year ...
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... Duke of Clarence , the third son of Edward III .; his great - great - granddaughter and ultimately sole heir , Ann Mortimer , by her marriage with Richard Planta- genet Earl of Cambridge , conveyed her right to the crown thence derived ...
... Duke of Clarence , the third son of Edward III .; his great - great - granddaughter and ultimately sole heir , Ann Mortimer , by her marriage with Richard Planta- genet Earl of Cambridge , conveyed her right to the crown thence derived ...
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... Duke of Aquitaine , to appear in his court as a vassal , and answer the complaints of the people of that duchy . The most memorable event of the short war that followed was the sad and atrocious massacre by the English prince of the ...
... Duke of Aquitaine , to appear in his court as a vassal , and answer the complaints of the people of that duchy . The most memorable event of the short war that followed was the sad and atrocious massacre by the English prince of the ...
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... Duke of Lancaster . The king himself , who had lost Queen Philippa in 1369 , had , in the weakness of old age , sunk under the dominion of a female favourite , Alice Perrers or Piers . She was a married woman , and had been lady of the ...
... Duke of Lancaster . The king himself , who had lost Queen Philippa in 1369 , had , in the weakness of old age , sunk under the dominion of a female favourite , Alice Perrers or Piers . She was a married woman , and had been lady of the ...
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Página 53 - WITH how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies! How silently, and with how wan a face! What, may it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries?
Página 118 - And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
Página 54 - Neither let it be deemed too saucy a comparison to balance the highest point of man's wit with the efficacy of Nature; but rather give right honour to the heavenly Maker of that maker, who having made man to His own likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature: which in nothing he showeth so much as in Poetry, when with the force of a divine breath he bringeth things forth far surpassing her doings...
Página 52 - Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain, — I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe; Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburn'd brain.
Página 48 - I hope, for the father's sake, it will be pardoned, perchance made much of, though in itself it have deformities. For indeed, for severer eyes it is not, being but a trifle, and that triflingly handled. Your dear self can best witness the manner, being done in loose sheets of paper, most of it in your presence ; the rest by sheets sent unto you as fast as they were done.
Página 137 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Página 54 - Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year and mark the night When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death through Berkeley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king...
Página 62 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me...
Página 45 - ... in comparison. Then would he add certain praises by telling what a peerless beast the horse was, the only serviceable courtier, without flattery, the beast of most beauty, faithfulness, courage, and such more, that if I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him, I think he would have persuaded me to have wished myself a horse.
Página 22 - O place of bliss! renewer of my woes! Give me account, where is my noble fere? Whom in thy walls thou dost each night enclose; To other lief; but unto me most dear." Echo, alas! that doth my sorrow rue, Returns thereto a hollow sound of plaint. Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine, with bondage and restraint: And with remembrance of the greater grief, To banish the less, I find my chief relief.