The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, Band 2Clarendon Press, 1907 |
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Albertus Morton Buckingham Carleton S. P. Ven Charles Club College death Dict discourse dispatch Doge doth Duke Dynely Earl Elector Elector Palatine Emperor England English April English Aug English Dec English June English Nov English Oct Eton Eton College favour France Gardiner Grisons Hague hath holograph humbly HW's letters ibid Jesuits John July King King's Lady likewise London Lord Lordship Majesty's N.S. Venice Calvert N.S. Venice Salisbury Naunton negotiations Palatine perchance poor Pope present Prince Reliq RIGHT HONOURABLE Rome S. P. Holland Salisbury S. P. Ven Sarpi Savoy Scioppius secretary sent servant SIR EDMUND BACON Sir Henry Wotton SIR RALPH WINWOOD Sir Robert Sir Thomas Spain Spanish treaty treaty of Xanten Turin unto your Majesty Valtelline Venetian Venice Carleton S. P. Venice James Venice Salisbury S. P. Vienna Wesel wherein whereof Winwood S. P. Ven Wotton wrote writes Xanten Zouche
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Seite 33 - Garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like— sufficient in truth within a while to make greatness very familiar if not ridiculous. Now, King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle...
Seite 33 - King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff, wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground.
Seite 381 - 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.
Seite 33 - ... and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming, within less than an hour, the whole house to the very ground. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric wherein yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks...
Seite 14 - Masters, who were all to enter per buletini for a note of distinction from ordinary Comedians. Towards the end of the Play, the sheriffs (who by chance had heard of it) came in (as they say) and carried some six or seven of them to perform the last Act at Bridewell; 8 the rest are fled.
Seite 382 - I should think that your best line will be through the whole length of France to Marseilles, and thence by sea to Genoa, whence the passage into Tuscany is as diurnal as a Gravesend barge. I hasten, as you do, to Florence, or Siena, the rather to tell you a short story, from the interest you have given me in your safety.
Seite 351 - All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way ; 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Seite 206 - This set me on fire : at last, he told me how. He hath a little black tent (of what stuff, is not much importing) which he can suddenly set up where he will in a field, and it is convertible...
Seite 499 - Donne), like hairs in horse-tails, concur in one root of beauty and strength ; but being plucked out, one by one, serve only for springes and snares.
Seite 469 - Venice : and indeed the kingdom afforded not a fitter man for matching the capaciousness of the Italian wits ; a man of so able dexterity with his pen, that he hath done himself much wrong, and the kingdom more, in leaving no more of his writings behind him.