 | 1918 - 1062 pages
...hear of her, his sorrows were less. " I that was wont to behold her," he writes in a famous passage, "riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...shade like a goddess ; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of the world ! ' Once amiss, hath bereaved us of all... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pages
...days, my sorrows were the less : but even now my heart is cast into the depth of all misery. I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime playing like Orpheus : behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all.... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 476 pages
...fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph ; sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel." Sir Walter knew how high the...banished the presence. And now, cast out of court favor, and calling himself " The queen's Captive," Rawleigh, whom many had feared and few had not admired,... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 430 pages
...days, my sorrows were the less, but even now my heart is cast into the depth of all misery. I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all.... | |
 | Joseph Wheeler (Author of A. short history of the Tower of London) - 1844 - 44 pages
...Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure face like a nymph, sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! once amiss hath bereaved me of alll&c."... | |
 | John Barrow - 1845 - 540 pages
...to Cecil, he speaks of his broken heart, on hearing that the Queen is gone away far off. " I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...like a goddess ; sometime singing like an angel," &c. &c. Now all this was meant to be seen and read by the angel, the goddess, and the nymph of sixty... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1846 - 384 pages
...days, my sorrows were the less, but even now my heart is cast into the depth of all misery. I that 'was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all... | |
 | 1847 - 784 pages
...Tower to Sir Robert Cecil, Raleigh indulged in the most extravagant flattery of the queen : " I that was wont to behold her, riding like Alexander, hunting...shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime playing like Orpheus." [1593.] Elizabeth granted him the manor of Sherborne in Dorsetshire.... | |
 | 1847 - 814 pages
...Tower to Sir Robert Cecil, Raleigh indulged in the most extravagant flattery of the queen : " I that was wont to behold her, riding like Alexander, hunting...shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime playing like Orpheus." [1593.] Elizabeth granted him the manor of Sherborne in Dorsetshire.... | |
 | Charles Campbell - 1847 - 224 pages
...Tower to Sir Robert Cecil, Raleigh indulged in the most extravagant flattery of the queen : " I that was wont to behold her, riding like Alexander, hunting...shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime playing like Orpheus." [1593.] Elizabeth granted him the "• manor of Sherborne in Dorsetshire.... | |
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I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime... 
