| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 462 pages
...them ? How much cleverer, if he has taken three lieutenant-generals and an hundred pieces of cannon ? Greville, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to king James, and friend to sir Philip Sidney," was the son of sir Foulke Greville, who acquired the manor ofAIcester, and other very large estates,... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1837 - 462 pages
...them ? How much cleverer, if he has taken three lieutenant-generals and an hundred pieces of cannon ? Greville, servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to king James, and friend to sir Philip Sidney," was the son of sir Foulke Greville, who acquired the manor of Aleester, and other very large estates,... | |
| Joseph W. Wyld - 1838 - 220 pages
...which he erected in his life time, and on which is seen the following eccentric inscription:—" Fluke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sydney." The death of this nobleman, which happened in 1628, in the seventy-fifth year of his age,... | |
| Fashion - 462 pages
...commemorates their attachment on his own tomb in this inscription : — ' Fulke Greville Lord Brook, servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." We now come to his works, in which we come face to face, as it were, with the author. The " Arcadia... | |
| John Howe - Puritans - 1838 - 662 pages
...inscription put upon his tomb, without any further enlargement, to this effect, That he had been a servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney. By this it appears that he would have all ages know whose servant, counsellor, and friend he had been.... | |
| 1838 - 406 pages
...Brooke's tomb, among those of his ancestry in St. Mary's chapel at Warwick, describes him briefly, as "servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to king James, and friend to sir Philip Sidney." His dramatic works were the tragedies of Alaham and Mustapha, both published in folio, five years after... | |
| Maria Baldwin - 1839 - 364 pages
...Warwick; where he ordered the following inscription to be engraved upon his tomb:— " Fulke Grevile, Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, And Friend to Sir Philip Sidney. Trophseum Peccati." Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, was born in 1567, succeeded to his title at ten... | |
| Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 358 pages
...Warwick; where he ordered the following inscription to be engraved upon his tomb : — " Fulke Grevile, Servant to Queen Elizabeth, Counsellor to King James, And Friend to Sir Philip Sidney. Tropha?um Peccati." Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, was born in 1567, succeeded to his title at ten... | |
| Thomas Fuller - England - 1840 - 614 pages
...lieth buried in Warwick church, under a monument of black and white marble, whereon he is styled " servant to queen Elizabeth, counsellor to king James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." Dying September 30, 1628, without issue, and unmarried, his barony, by virtue of entail in the patent,... | |
| Massachusetts - 1841 - 552 pages
...349 (Svo. ed.) On his tomb-stone in Warwick Church, he had inscribed this brief but noble epitaph : " Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney." See Wood's Athenae Oxon. i. 521 ; Fuller's Worthies, ii.415; Birch's Queen Elizabeth, i. 178; ~v> union's... | |
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