Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 26
... crown unto him , ' not merely in metaphor , but literally . He exhibited himself , at the Shakspeare Jubilee , to all the crowd which filled Stratford - on- Avon , with a placard round his hat bearing the inscription of Corsica Boswell ...
... crown unto him , ' not merely in metaphor , but literally . He exhibited himself , at the Shakspeare Jubilee , to all the crowd which filled Stratford - on- Avon , with a placard round his hat bearing the inscription of Corsica Boswell ...
Page 33
... Crown had placed him above poverty . Of those eminent men who were his most intimate associates towards the close of his life , the only one , as far as we remember , who knew him during the first ten or twelve years of his residence in ...
... Crown had placed him above poverty . Of those eminent men who were his most intimate associates towards the close of his life , the only one , as far as we remember , who knew him during the first ten or twelve years of his residence in ...
Page 48
... crown ? The crown has not power enough . ' 999 One of the old philosophers , Lord Bacon tells us , used to say that life and death were just the same to him . ' Why then , ' said an objector , ' do you not kill yourself ? " The ...
... crown ? The crown has not power enough . ' 999 One of the old philosophers , Lord Bacon tells us , used to say that life and death were just the same to him . ' Why then , ' said an objector , ' do you not kill yourself ? " The ...
Page 86
... crown . No English king has ever en- joyed such absolute power as Henry the Eighth . But while the royal prerogatives were acquiring strength at the expense of the nobility , two great revolutions took place , destined to be the parents ...
... crown . No English king has ever en- joyed such absolute power as Henry the Eighth . But while the royal prerogatives were acquiring strength at the expense of the nobility , two great revolutions took place , destined to be the parents ...
Page 88
... exercise of this power , they might hope to take from the Church its usurped authority over the consciences of men , and from the Crown some part of the vast THE RULE OF ELIZABETH 89 prerogative which it had recently 88 JOHN HAMPDEN.
... exercise of this power , they might hope to take from the Church its usurped authority over the consciences of men , and from the Crown some part of the vast THE RULE OF ELIZABETH 89 prerogative which it had recently 88 JOHN HAMPDEN.
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