The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, Bind 1Clarendon Press, 1907 - 508 sider |
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Side 44
... rest unsatisfied of that , till you bring the gentleman to me . " Not many months after this discourse , the Lord Wotton brought his brother to attend the King , who took him in his arms , and bade him welcome by the name of Octavio ...
... rest unsatisfied of that , till you bring the gentleman to me . " Not many months after this discourse , the Lord Wotton brought his brother to attend the King , who took him in his arms , and bade him welcome by the name of Octavio ...
Side 50
... rest of the peninsula . Although since the League of Cambrai , the loss of Cyprus , and the partial loss of the Eastern trade , the power of the Republic had been gradually declining , this very falling off of strength had given a ...
... rest of the peninsula . Although since the League of Cambrai , the loss of Cyprus , and the partial loss of the Eastern trade , the power of the Republic had been gradually declining , this very falling off of strength had given a ...
Side 81
... can easily do all the rest . I have written to my ambassador to make a similar promise in my name to the Republic . ' ( Ibid . , p . 387. ) WOTTON . I G Venetians , in reliance on the help of England.1 It ATTITUDE OF JAMES I 81.
... can easily do all the rest . I have written to my ambassador to make a similar promise in my name to the Republic . ' ( Ibid . , p . 387. ) WOTTON . I G Venetians , in reliance on the help of England.1 It ATTITUDE OF JAMES I 81.
Side 114
... rest of his suite , and with them a Venetian Protestant convert , a physician named Despotini . At Padua he spent ten days with Lord Cranborne , Salisbury's eldest son , who was lying ill there with fever and home - sickness . He then ...
... rest of his suite , and with them a Venetian Protestant convert , a physician named Despotini . At Padua he spent ten days with Lord Cranborne , Salisbury's eldest son , who was lying ill there with fever and home - sickness . He then ...
Side 201
... rest , and over my study door you shall find written Invidiae Remedium ' . This money , Walton says , was paid out of the arrears owing him , and he was enabled to settle into his new home . He seems to have visited Bury St. Edmunds ...
... rest , and over my study door you shall find written Invidiae Remedium ' . This money , Walton says , was paid out of the arrears owing him , and he was enabled to settle into his new home . He seems to have visited Bury St. Edmunds ...
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abroad afterwards Albertus Morton ambassador April arrived audience Bedell bound to honour brother Cardinal Carleton Casaubon Catholic cause College Collegio Court death discourse dispatch Doge doth Dutch duty EARL OF SALISBURY Emperor England Essex Eton favour Florence France French gentleman George Rooke German Grand Duke hath holograph honour and serve hope humbly Ibid Italian Italy James Jesuits journey judgement King King's Leonardo Donato letter likewise Lord Darcy Lord Zouche Lordship's always bound Majesty's matter negotiations occasion Padua Paolo Sarpi papal Pope Pope's present Prince printed Protestant Queen received Reliq Republic RIGHT HONOURABLE Rome S. P. Ven Sarpi Savoy secret secretary Senate sent servant Sir Henry Wotton Spain Spanish Style thought Tuscany unto his Majesty unto your Honour unto your Lordship Valtelline Venetian Venetian ambassador Venice Vienna wherein whereof Wotton wrote write written
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Side 129 - How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will ; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill ; Whose passions not his masters are ; Whose soul is still prepared for death...
Side 170 - You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light ; You common people of the skies ; What are you when the moon shall rise?
Side 220 - Wherein I should much commend the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes ; whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language, Ipsa mollities.
Side 171 - Thinking your passions understood By your weak accents; what's your praise When Philomel her voice shall raise ? You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own ; What are you when the rose is blown ? So, when my mistress shall be seen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a Queen, Tell me, if she were not design'd Th...
Side 213 - My next and last example shall be that undervaluer of money, the late provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton, a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employThe First Day 41 ments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness, made his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind.
Side 213 - ... for Angling was, after tedious study, ' a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness ; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.
Side 130 - Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all.
Side 213 - Indeed, my friend, you will find Angling to be like the virtue of Humility, which has a calmness of spirit, and a world of other blessings attending upon it. Sir, this was the saying of that learned man. And I do easily believe, that peace, and patience, and a calm content, did cohabit in the cheerful heart of Sir Henry Wotton, because I know that when he was beyond seventy years of age, he made this...
Side 211 - After his customary public Devotions, his use was to retire into his Study, and there to spend some hours in reading the Bible, and Authors in Divinity, closing up his meditations with private prayer ; this was, for the most part, his employment in the forenoon.