The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh: LettersMacmillan & Company, 1868 |
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Page 51 - While she was yet near at hand, that I might hear of her once in two or three days, my sorrows were the less: but even now my heart is cast into the depth of all misery.
Page 476 - I have nothing to say," there he paused long — " and yet a word of Tacitus comes in my mind. Non eadem omnibus decora — the house of the Wiltons had spent many lives in their prince's service, and Grey cannot beg his. God send the king a long and prosperous reign, and to your lordships all honour.
Page 157 - They will go from strength to strength : and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion.
Page 51 - My heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the Queen goes away so far off — whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire, in so many journeys, and am now left behind her, in a dark prison all alone.
Page 52 - She is gone in whom I trusted, and of me hath not one thought of mercy, nor any respect of that that was. Do with me now therefore what you list. I am more weary of life than they are desirous I should perish, which if it had been for her, as it is by her, I had been too happily born.
Page 348 - We are yet two hundred men ; and the rest of our fleet are reasonably strong ; — strong enough, I hope, to perform what we have undertaken; if the diligent care at London to make our strength known to the Spanish king by his ambassadour, have not taught the Spanish king ' to fortifie all the enterances against us.
Page 153 - ... ends by the ships' side, under the water even to the lips; many swimming with grievous wounds, strucken under water, and put out of their pain ; and withal so huge a fire, and such tearing of the ordnance in the great Philip, and the rest, when the fire came to them, as, if any man had a desire to see Hell itself, it was there most lively figured.
Page 153 - Philip to shake hands with her (for with the wind we could not get aboard) : which when she and the rest perceived, finding also that the Repulse (seeing mine) began to do the like, and the Rear-Admiral my Lord Thomas, they all let slip, and ran aground, tumbling into the sea.
Page 51 - I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all.
Page 146 - You shall receive many Relations, but none more true than this. May it please your Honour, therefore, to know, that on Sunday, being the 20th of June, the English fleet came to anchor in the bay of St.