The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, Bind 1Clarendon Press, 1907 - 508 sider |
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... George Rooke , of Kent , Rowland Woodward , Henry Cogan , and William Parkhurst accompanied Wotton to Venice , or were in his service during his first embassy there . Gregorio de ' Monti was his Italian secretary , and another Italian ...
... George Rooke , of Kent , Rowland Woodward , Henry Cogan , and William Parkhurst accompanied Wotton to Venice , or were in his service during his first embassy there . Gregorio de ' Monti was his Italian secretary , and another Italian ...
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... George Rooke to Naples . ( Venice , May , 1605. ) RIGHT HONOURABLE AND MY VERY GOOD LORD , Your Lordship receiveth herein ( apart from other businesses ) the draft of two instructions given unto two of mine own family ; whereof the one ...
... George Rooke to Naples . ( Venice , May , 1605. ) RIGHT HONOURABLE AND MY VERY GOOD LORD , Your Lordship receiveth herein ( apart from other businesses ) the draft of two instructions given unto two of mine own family ; whereof the one ...
Side 328
... George Rooke going into Sicily , 1604 ( 5 ) . Cotton MS . , Jul . E , ii . 105 ) . George Rooke was to demand the release of certain English ships detained by the Spanish Viceroy of Sicily , the Duke of Feria . At Naples he was to ...
... George Rooke going into Sicily , 1604 ( 5 ) . Cotton MS . , Jul . E , ii . 105 ) . George Rooke was to demand the release of certain English ships detained by the Spanish Viceroy of Sicily , the Duke of Feria . At Naples he was to ...
Side 329
... George Rooke of Kent , a very indus- trious and discreet person . He is departed from me within these three days ; and as I shall hear from him , your Lordship shall receive it . In the meanwhile I most humbly crave his Majesty's ...
... George Rooke of Kent , a very indus- trious and discreet person . He is departed from me within these three days ; and as I shall hear from him , your Lordship shall receive it . In the meanwhile I most humbly crave his Majesty's ...
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... George Rooke is free of his ague , and so bragg of his legs that he is gone to Padua . Pray always remember me to your brother and cousin . And so God keep you all in his dear favour . Your very affectionate friend , HENRY WOTTON . 1 At ...
... George Rooke is free of his ague , and so bragg of his legs that he is gone to Padua . Pray always remember me to your brother and cousin . And so God keep you all in his dear favour . Your very affectionate friend , HENRY WOTTON . 1 At ...
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Side 130 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend ; — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ; Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all.
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? You curious chanters of the wood, That warble forth Dame Nature's lays, Thinking your passions understood By your weak accents; what's your praise When Philomel her voice shall raise?
Side 171 - 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? 39 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' eclipse and glory of her kind?
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 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 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.
Side 211 - But, when he was once sate to dinner, then nothing but cheerful thoughts possessed his mind ; and, those still increased by constant company at his table, of such persons as brought thither additions both of learning and pleasure; but some part of most days was usually spent in philosophical conclusions.
Side 222 - How use" ful was that advice of a holy monk, who persuaded his " friend to perform his customary devotions in a constant " place, because in that place we usually meet with tliose " very thoughts which possessed us at our last being there!