Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne, Band 2Hurst and Blackett, 1864 - 438 Seiten Explores the lives of courtiers and society during the reigns of Elizabeth and Anne. Also, as stated in the preface, "It is hoped that the reader will not object to receive a little more than is promised on the title page." Also paints a portrait of Catherine of Aragon and is based on papers, mostly found at Kimbolton, but also that rest in the Record Office and Simancas. |
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Seite 71 - Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart ; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse : We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Seite 224 - Landscape ; and it is from hence, in a great degree, that, in the buildings of Vanbrugh, who was a Poet as well as an Architect, there is a greater display of imagination than we shall find, perhaps, in any other...
Seite 351 - Every limb, and every finger, contributes to the part he acts, insomuch that a deaf man might go along with him in the sense of it. There is scarce a beautiful posture in an old statue which he does not plant himself in, as the different circumstances of the story give occasion for it.
Seite 392 - To THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, In obedience to Your Majesty's Commands signified to us by...
Seite 384 - English stage ; for there is no question but our great grand-children will be very curious to know the reason why their forefathers used to sit together like an audience of foreigners in their own country, and to hear whole plays acted before them in a tongue which they did not understand.
Seite 385 - I hope, since we do put such an entire confidence in them, they will not talk against us before our faces, though they may do it with the same safety as if it were behind our backs. In the...
Seite 283 - I have the Honor to be with great Respect, My Lord ! Your Lordship's Most Obedient and Most Humble Servant HT CRAMAHE.
Seite 313 - I would, therefore, rather choose to speak of the pleasure you afford all who are admitted to your conversation, of your elegant taste in all the polite arts of learning, of your great humanity and complacency of manners, and of the surprising influence which is peculiar to you, in making every one who converses with your lordship prefer you to himself, without thinking the less meanly of his own talents.
Seite 259 - You may guess the condition of his unhappy wife, who lost, in the same ship with her husband, her two only sons by Sir John Narborough.
Seite 374 - Orford and St. John used to laugh in their cups, which came out by Duke Devonshire, that they had instructed the Queen to behave so as to make Lord Somers think he should be her chief minister.