The Age of ElizabethEstes and Lauriat, 1876 - 236 pages |
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affairs alarmed Alva Alva's amongst Antwerp Armada army became began bishops Bothwell Cardinal carried Catholic party Catholicism cause CHAPTER Charles chief Church Coligny Council Darnley death Don John Duke of Anjou Duke of Guise Earl ecclesiastical Edward Elizabeth Elizabeth's reign Emperor England Essex Euphuism Europe expedition favour favourite feeling felt fleet France French gave Germany hands Henry III Henry IV Henry of Navarre Henry VIII hoped Huguenots influence Jesuits king king's lands League Leicester Lord marriage married Mary of Scotland Mary's Navarre Nether Netherlands nobles once papal Paris Parliament Parma peace persecution Philip Philip II plans plot political Pope popular position Prince of Orange Protestant Protestantism provinces queen rebellion Reformation refused regent religion religious revolt royal schemes Scots sent Shakespeare ships siege Somerset soon Spain Spaniards Spanish monarchy Spanish troops spirit struggle success tion took town
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Page 180 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 143 - MY loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes, for fear of treachery. But I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and goodwill of my subjects...
Page 175 - Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please ? Resolve me of all ambiguities ? Perform what desperate enterprise I will ? I'll have them fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl, And search all corners of the new-found world, For pleasant fruits and princely delicates.
Page 170 - LOVING in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain,— 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 sunburnt brain.
Page 102 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 168 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Page 168 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Page 175 - I'll levy soldiers with the coin they bring, And chase the Prince of Parma from our land,** And reign sole king of all the provinces; Yea, stranger engines for the brunt of war Than was the fiery keel" at Antwerp's bridge, I'll make my servile spirits to invent.
Page 143 - I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too...
Page 190 - No, Robin, I am not well;' and then discoursed to 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. I was grieved, at the first, to see her in this plight, for in all my lifetime...