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id: 36993
author: Jordan, Furneaux
title: Body, Parentage and Character in History: Notes on the Tudor Period
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  If King Henry, however, had had no wife at all, the Reformation would have come no more slowly than it did; if he had had, like King Solomon, seven hundred wives, it would have come no more quickly. Momentous changes in sixteenth century 1 Many characters given to noted persons 3 A great number given to Henry 3 The character given in our time 6 Attempt to give an impartial view 8 Need of additional light 14 NOTE II.--THE RELATION OF BODY AND PARENTAGE TO CHARACTER.


id: 29107
author: Abbott, Jacob
title: Queen Elizabeth Makers of History
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  They were all liable to a charge of treason against the government of Edward by such plots, as his ministers and counselors might maintain that their design was to overthrow Edward's government and make Elizabeth queen. Makers of History Queen Elizabeth BY JACOB ABBOTT WITH ENGRAVINGS NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1901 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, by HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.


id: 47006
author: Tappan, Eva March
title: In the Days of Queen Elizabeth
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  He kissed it and said:-- Good morrow, my Lady Elizabeth. That is our Lady Elizabeth, said Lady Margaret, the most wilful, winsome little lassie in all the world.


id: 34650
author: Stephens, Robert Neilson
title: A Gentleman Player; His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth
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  But such a feat of arms was barely within possibility, a fact which made Master Hal extremely unwilling that matters should come to an encounter. At last Hal said, Now! and rode forth into the road, which was here of exceptional width.


id: 32593
author: Harrison, William
title: Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison
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  And to say truth, _dene_ is the old Saxon word for a vale or low bottom, as _dune_ or _don_ is for a hill or hilly soil. The account of Tiberius Cæsar dashing out the brains of the all-too-clever mechanic (who had actually accomplished this feat), so as to prevent the Roman world from emancipating itself from the rule of _iron_ (or _of gold_), is the most startling legend in the imperial annals.


id: 27450
author: Saintsbury, George
title: A History of Elizabethan Literature
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  We see (or at least I think I see) in Ford exactly the signs which are so familiar to us in our own day, and which repeat themselves regularly at the end of all periods of distinct literary creativeness--the signs of _excentricité voulue_. There has also been little difference in regarding the remarkable work (known as Tottel's _Miscellany_, but more properly called _Songs and Sonnets, written by the Right Honourable Lord Henry Howard, late Earl of Surrey, and other_) which was published by Richard Tottel in 1557, and which went through two editions in the summer of that year, as marking the dawn of the new period.


id: 21500
author: Aikin, Lucy
title: Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
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  He was a faithful and affectionate subject to queen Elizabeth, in whose reign he turned protestant; was by her greatly favored, and finally died in peace in 1585.[4] That ill-directed restlessness which formed so striking a feature in the character of Henry VIII. A short epistle from queen Elizabeth to Sturmius, which is inserted in this collection, appears to refer to that of Sturmius which Ascham answers above.


