 There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies and the adulation of friends than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely any whose reputation has been more certainly determined by the unanimous consent...  The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 126by Alexander Chalmers - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 414 pages
...wear the aspect of severe satire and invective. QUEEH ELIZABETH. (From " History of England.") THEBB are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...seventieth year of her age, and forty-fifth of her reign. So dark a cloud overcast the evening of that Jay, calumny of enemies and the adulation of friends than Qu«n Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely any... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...(March 24, 16031, in the seventieth year of her age, and forty-fifth of her reign. So dark a cloud overcast the evening of that day, which had shone out with a mighty lustre in the tyc> of all Europe ! There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny... | |
 | William Odum - 1904 - 286 pages
...love For that which was to royal. SWINBURNE. IT HAS been observed by David Hume, the historian, that "there are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies and the adulation of friends than Queen Elizabeth." It must be admitted that these... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...having actually tasted it 240 CHARACTER OF ELIZABETH. [From TV. History of England, Chap. XU V (1759)] There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies and the adulation of friends than Queen 5 Elizabeth; and yet there is scarcely any... | |
 | Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet - Readers - 1906 - 392 pages
...style is simple and clear, and is remarkable for ease and grace. He died in Edinburgh, Aug. 25, 1776. There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...in his mind as so or so, and then passes on to the next object he meets. DAVID HUME QUEEN ELIZABETH 'T'HERE are few great personages in history who have •*• been more exposed to the calumny of enemies and the adulation of friends than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely any... | |
 | Walter Rippmann (ed) - 1914 - 152 pages
...slumber, which continued some hours ; and she expired gently, without further struggle or convul(3) There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies and the adulation of friends than Queen Elizabeth, 36 and yet there is scarcely... | |
 | Sir Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1916 - 438 pages
...manner is to be found in his remarks on the character of Elizabeth : " So dark a cloud overcast tjje evening of that day which had shone out with a mighty...personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies and the adulation of friends than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely any... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...sententious manner is to be found in his remarks on the character of Elizabeth : " So dark a cloud overcast the evening of that day which had shone out...personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies and the adulation of friends than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely any... | |
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